In April 1978 I traveled up to Rojan, Punjab from Karachi where Baluch friends from the Mazari tribe met met me and took me up into Bugti country. (You have to consult the Baluch/Brahui line - the worst line ever posted on DGS per a knowledgeable poster - to know whom I'm talking about). It was the day Da'ud Khan was overthrown in Kabul, the Migs passing over the US Embassy to hit the Presidential palace, the American school of Karachi kids up for an athletic event cowering inside,

Anyway...lots of SxS's in this picture taken at a jirga early morning 29 April, and I would give a lot to know what were their makes. I've asked the few survivors from that trip - most have died of old age, Baluch feuds, etc., if they can help identify the guns. When you got up into the mountains...nothing but 303 Enfields with 1200 yard sights. I had carried a little snub nose .357 revolver up with me. Talk about being useless!!

Wonderful photo. Real Rudyard Kipling great game stuff.

White Man's Burden and all that!!

Don’t sell King’s hockey threads short. (I liked them, King! Go Wings!)




Not seeing an Adam Baluch. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Woodward or Boss in the mix. Don Mazari (front right) looks as though he’s holding something nice.

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There’s a lot of money in that white powder. Sonny Corleone

Figured you might Interject something about a cluster munition. Must be sunny in Detroit.

Best,
Ted

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Facing Windsor.

Great picture.

These photos are before the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan and the murderous ideological genocide, the jihad, and dispersion of weapons throughout the region that followed (along with the extremism) which displaced the .303 with the AK-47...and excuse me, in that terrain, I'll take the Enfield. This is a Baluch Jirga in the middle of no-where. Note the lack of carpets. Baluch in Pakistan do not weave carpets. There is history to this...can explain:


Upcountry Bugti's and Mazari's. Lots of rifles...but look at the terrain.


Interesting way to BBQ....fire is built around the meat and roasted for hours rather than turning on a spit - helped by the fact it was 110 degreesF at this time. Look at the terrain. That .357 snub nose was as good as a rock.

The faces remind me of the meetings and villages. I saw in Laghman. At the end of the day they are what they are. Relics and and impediments to the good of their people, grasping onto values and thoughts overcome by reality. Yet they will at last any progress and deserve the medieval world they are comfortable in.

The are what they are and will not evolve.

Laghman Province ....takes me back. Meterlam was the alleged burial place of the father of Noah. The Laghman people always sniffed at the "fleshpots" of Kabul. The former DC of the Afghan intel service was from there, predictably murdered.

There's nothing much up there except the road from Kabul to the Khyber..with valleys branching north up into the mountains. I talked to a man from one of the valleys - my friends basically said that with his character if he ever walked into a Mosque, the minaret would fall and crush him - he was murdered 7 months later.

I figure it’ll be a lightning bolt that gets me.




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Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight
And I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away
And leaves you with nothing mister but
Boring stories of...Glory Days.
https://youtu.be/GLBnj159q3s

Not a prayer. COPD, for sure.

See Jay “Pee Wee” Gleason.

Best,
Ted

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1/4 mile and one heater at a time. Glory days.

Is it safe to smoke while hooked to oxygen? Asking for a friend.

That CB-F concept at 5:12 is tight.
I’d take that silver CB400 Super Four at 6:38 in a heartbeat.

https://youtu.be/4Xuc2B2lC0c


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The Honda girl is superfine. I like her outfit too.

Lucas,
No.

You are paying attention to a 400 when there is a Fireblade in the picture?

Best,
Ted

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You know she’s a white girl, right? The accent gives it away, well, that, and her nose.

I spent a little over a year in Mehtar Lam; Interesting place overall. My experience there varied from dealing with some effective government officials to some not so much. Curious how you could be in a small village up in the hills and they would have the cell number of a good one if you mentioned the name. Also interesting how you could generate an equally bad reaction if you mentioned a corrupt one. The villagers knew well who was of value to them and not.

If you did right by locals you rarely got shot at, they figured out what Americans were worth working with and not.

It appears that you fooled them, and you were able to appear as something better than a worm Gladys. Too bad. Of course, they probably liked your soft hands.

Bet you are thankful for Bill Clinton and his "Don't ask, don't tell" policy... right?

How does this "thing," the hate-filled guy with the "little man" complex continue to infest this board and fill it with his schizophrenic bi-polar rants? So "little man," (look, being short and weeny is not all that bad), take your meds.

Keith...you know a lot about guns and you have an artistic side which is interesting. But you and your vomit-filled posts on an engineering board are utterly DISGUSTING!!! If you'd like to talk to me man-to-boy about it, I'll drive up to Pennsylvania.

Wow. You’re up at 12 am writing on bbs board threatening to drive up to Pennsylvania?
C’mon tough guy, try taking it down a few notches why don’t ya. And again, what in the name of Allah does this thread have to do with double guns or the discussion of double guns????? There’s literally a pic of some dudes with what appears to be double barrels. Nothing about the guns they’re holding, where or how they were made, where they sourced their tools or parts, any pics showing these guns made. It’s just another thread you posted to talk about your adventures abroad. Nothing more, nothing less. It has absolutely nothing to do with what we are all on here to talk about and discuss, which is double guns btw.
Nobody cares about your adventures with the Baluch, Baluchi, Balushi’s, or whatever the capital F you go on yapping about. You aren’t the only one to go abroad and talk with or kill the local population. A lot of us have been there and done that. There’s other forums for that kind of discussion.
You know, a while back someone here posted some really interesting pics of someone in the Middle East using very rudimentary tools and techniques to build a working double gun from scrap steel. That was an extremely interesting thread. That kind of thread was enlightening, interesting and absolutely belonged here on this board. Threads like this one and your awful genealogy thread do not.

Lefusil,
I totally agree, about time.
Those two threads should have never been started, IMO
This board is about guns, preferably doubles.

If it is an "Engineering" board, maybe I will start a thread on bending stress in sewing needles........

Don’t make him drive to Utah.


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Golf anyone? Anyone?

Heavens no, we wouldn’t want that. :-)

There are three guys on here who apparently sanction, support and agree with a paranoid schitzophrenic Keith insulting veterans, their service abroad, and calling them Queers. They are
-- LeFusil - the always angry ranting original Yosemite Sam,
-- DmColonial the Canadian, who I don't know squat about but seems to be negatively nasty, and
-- LR - who gets a pass because he knows where is Musa Qala...and besides has a sense of humor

Just take a look in the mirror gentlemen and see who you really are and what you stand for because the rest of the board now understands.

Argo, if you knew anything about LeFusil's service to this country (along with his family) you would be embarrassed by your comments, or at least should be if you have any shred of honor.

Oh isn’t this rich. You don’t know shit about me Gene. All of this coming from a guy who constantly post the biggest yawn fest this board has ever seen. If I’m Yosemite Sam, then you’re Beetle Bailey. The rest of the board already knows what you are Gene...you’re a serial reminiscer, a has been that never was, the off topic champion, and one of the weirdest dudes to ever post here. I go off on you because you’re a fool and it’s hard to tolerate your incessant ridiculousness. Anyone who stays up till 1 am to crank out a retort or edit his post needs help, go get some.

Lef... If you ever served anywhere, a tip of the hat. But you supported a naked and utterly unjust attack on a veteran. You did it Fusil... Look at your post. It might have been aimed at me, but you directed it against a veteran. It was disgusting.

And Bluestem...I'll match my service and that of my family against anything the ranting, insult mongering, little man has ever done.

You definitely have mental issues, Gene. Go get some help. It’s not even funny anymore. Get some help.

The insult meister speaks. You brought this on little punk...by supporting a nut case.

Go apologize to Michael. I'll accept it. Unless you think he is queer.

My Ignore list just got longer

Argo, put the measuring tape down and get over yourself. The silent majority of people that visit this site (of which I am usually one) come for the shotgun knowledge and expertise, some of which is the best on the planet. If Lefusil hurt your feelings by calling out your irrelevant and tedious posts, so be it. There are other venues for you to see your words in print.

Bluestem. I well know Dustin's reputation. I also know about his sharp tongue and propensity to write stuff he'd never say face to face to anybody. And my upset is not about me - I don't give a whit about that - he has a tendency to believe what he was told as a child - we're working on that.

i.e. I don't care what he says about me personally...I just want to know what he knows about JC Reilly building guns in the 1840's and 1850's. - he said he had information on this subject - never posted it.

The topic was dicey - we're locked down...what the heck. Might be interesting to somebody. My problem came when he supported Keith...calling out Michael as a homosexual poseur. Do you support that?

I still think Bobski is missing a chance to make serious bank at the Pigeon Farm by holding a doublegun bbs cage match. Missouri is aboot halfway between Virginia and Utah, isn’t it?
I challenge everyone here. (I hope nobody takes me up on this because I’ve spent a ton of money on my teeth and I don’t want them kicked oot of me head)


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Oot of hand. Gary Stewart
https://youtu.be/IhR9IGIU2Dc

Argo, if you actually knew LeFusil, you would understand that he would tell you exactly what he wrote to your face, and he would not flinch. He shoots straight (literally and figuratively) and he does not suffer fools.
Relax, try to wear-out some Reilly barrels, and avoid C-19.

Roger that....I'm shooting BB guns in the basement. I drove through the Utah outback several times over the last 10 years with French wife and always marveled at the place.. especially the country of the Grande Escalante. My wife and I drove a CJ-7 for 25 years...all over India, Greece, Crete, the Balkans, Italy, the Congo in my service postings abroad...and we rented a little Jeep to take these trips. I always wondered about possibly settling there...and perhaps running across Dustin. We walked up to the church in Salt Lake City....she always wears a black jumper and walks behind me.....I fitted in.

And I'll take that as an expression of opinion that Keith as usual was off-base in his comments about Old Colonel. Keith is an interesting guy - so knowledgeable and artistic and so mental. Thanks. You guys really do know a lot and I rely on you,

I enjoyed your little rant Argo44. It is always interesting to see who and what you find objectionable and unacceptable. You may have noticed that I don't like or respect the little worm Gladys Kravitz. That has absolutely nothing to do with his status as a veteran. It has everything to do with the choice Gladys made a couple years ago to begin attacking me. Gladys and his friends apparently expected me to just take it without returning fire. It must really suck to know that did not happen.

However, I did not call any veterans Queers, as you falsely stated. But perhaps you know more about Gladys than we do. My reference to Gladys' soft hands comes from this pic he recently posted:



I believe you have told us you have a French wife... about a thousand times. Are her French hands as soft and delicate as Gladys Kravitz's hands? All that's missing is fingernail polish.

You also keep saying that this is an engineering board. Before you head to Pennsylvania, presumably in a tank or Bradley armored vehicle, (I'd expect no less) could you please tell us how this thread has anything to do with engineering.... or double guns for that matter? Are you so desperate to regale us with your Afghan adventures that you have to fall back on a group photo of some Afghani tribesmen with a couple totally non-descript doubles?

And pray tell... where was all of the engineering or double gun content in that Baluch and Brouhaha genealogy thread? I told you I read every word, and while somewhat interesting, it was even more wildly off-topic than this. Of course, off-topic threads are nothing new here. I generally don't object, except to note that a certain element here are only bothered by off-topic threads that deal with 2nd Amendment or gun rights topics. I suppose that's because those discussions never shine a favorable light on the anti-gun Democrats they support. In fact, that's what got your weird little friend Gladys Kravitz so intensely interested in me... for having the gall to confront anti-2nd Amendment trolls like King Brown. Actually, I'm shocked King isn't bragging about how wonderfully that Canadian gun control is working in the Wild West province of Nova Scotia after that little "incident" several days ago. Nevertheless, Gladys won't tell you what a dedicated little worm she became, but I know, and that's all that matters to me. My negative opinion of Gladys is totally a result of her attacks and dirt-digging. If you wish to twist that and make the spurious claim that I am disrespecting veterans in general, then you are equally disingenuous. But we all know you have your preferences and affiliates. I just wish your friend jOe wasn't busy filling his freezer with turkey's. He'd love this crap.

Geez princess it seems there is a bit of cabin fever going around. Don't you think your frustration would be better vented in a more constructive venue such a local protest against the stay at home restrictions? I hear the rallies where the attendees stand in close quarters and take off their face masks and burn them are the most effective at getting a change. You could even insult a co-conspirator health care worker or two. Don't you think you could do your part and attend one of those?

Relax, dude. Argo already pointed out you get the sense of humor pass.

Best,
Ted

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But, if you are at Bobski’s and you hear Insane Clown Posse music,
it might be time to leave.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aDpYYj0jdx0
(Sounds like Detroit, Louie)

Chillin’ in the crib smokin’ Grasmere, sipping’ on Jack and Coke (laid-back)
With my mind on my money and my money on my mind. (options expiring today)

Lonny’s the name, money’s the game.


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I never go around mirrors because I need a shave and a haircut.
https://youtu.be/5K28ARN-kCg
(driving each other crazy with Merle Haggard and Lana Del Rey)

Keith, your president suggests injecting Lysol. He should do it first then you ought to give it a shot, so to speak. Or perhaps you could volunteer to be his science advisor.

Dang. I got your name wrong, again. Sorry aboot that.

I shoulda known when I only held the FJs front wheel up in the air for a block or so this morning, I was a little bit off today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjSrR64DtQ

Best,
Ted

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You don’t need a shave like I need a shave.

A very interesting thread. It's enough to give thought about who is toting guns around and maybe we really need an extensive mental test before turning some of these loony tunes on the public.
Just an old mans thoughts who has collected for over 80 years.In most cases we destroy ourselves within.

The guys with guns don’t scare me as much as the dudes with treadle sewing machines.

And guns.

Best,
Ted

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But, if you find me in a creek bottom with my mouth sergered shut,
my mother-in-law did it.

Full story, here. I love the terms “Auto Beclowning” and “Settled Science”. They go together so well.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/202...like_fools.html

Best,
Ted

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Geez, you would have thought he said there were 57 states, left
the supply of N95 masks depleted after the SARS outbreak,
or said our healthcare costs were going down $2500 a year.

Gotta give them props for trying to spin the impossible ted. You can spin it all you want, its just too damn bad there is video and transcripts.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-suggests-infecting-disinfectant-video-transcript-2020-4

But hey lets buck up, we are only 10,000 deaths away for the best case scenario of 60,000 deaths, with no end in sight for the 2500+ deaths a day. What an outstanding job!

Remember when it was just going to be 5 cases and then it was going to magically go away?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-coronavirus-statements/

With all that sunshine your letting him blow up your ass you must be immune by now!

No. But, unlike you I would never pretend that inhalers and hypodermic needles don’t exist, or, that they were invented by outside the box thinking.
Thinking you mock. When it suits you, anyway.
You quote an article from March 31, trying to damn somebody who is discovering an ailment not seen previously in the world? The best part was the democrats filing impeachment papers when he was at at a meeting discussing the virus for the first time. You can’t make this lefty lunacy up, they were pursuing an impeachment without anything other than the media supplied word, “devastating” that they knew, for many reasons would go nowhere. I remember racist and xenophobic comments about a lifesaving border closing, do you? I suppose not.
Actually the end seems to be in sight, in many places. Thus far, it equals a really bad flu season, once you get past the hysteria.
Best,
Ted

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“We’ll just leave the N95 mask supply depleted. Might lead to a crisis that suits who we are”.

Ted, Let's hope the end is in sight. If not, there's always Lysol.

In a perfect obama utopian world, Lysol would be for the rest of us. You, being old, would be told to go home and die.

But, hey, that isn’t who I am. I’ll share my Lysol with you. Might work.

Best,
Ted

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Might not, either. But like the man told inner city democrats,
“What have you got to lose”.

CDC / NYT report that from mid March to mid April in New York State, there were roughly 13,000 deaths from all reported causes....cancer, heart, flu, accidents, homicides, etc.

They report that this year, 2020, there are 16,000 deaths from all causes. But the breakdown is 5,000 from all causes as above but an additional 11,000 from Covid19.

That's the New York Times reporting Centre for Disease Control numbers. Don't need to be a rocket scientist to see something is fishy.

At the same time, those same organizations report the number of regular flu cases are down in late March and April to almost non-existence, from thousands of cases last year.

It's either fake news or it's fake news.

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm?

Ted, Thanks. You first.

Well ted, I think I will continue to be charitable and let you try the Lysol first.

BTW, have you noticed the hydroxychlorquine hype dropped off the face of the earth? thought that was gonna save us all.

Guess not.

https://news.yahoo.com/fda-issues-hydroxychloroquine-warning-studies-182515316.html

Its nice to see science disabuse trump of stupid ideas once in a while.

Actually, not. This, from The American Thinker, dated today:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/hydroxychloroquine_derangement_syndrome.html

You likely aren’t smart enough to realize even the best approved medications don’t always cure the infections they are prescribed for in all patients. Or, that hope is often a pretty powerful placebo.

Keep flailing. Too funny.

Best,
Ted

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James, thanks for noting that. Went right over their heads.

What is funny is is that you think your right wing conservative web sites engage in actual journalism.

They're gonna holdup well to medical/scientific journals.

Here's another study...

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus...ed-for-covid-19

You likely aren’t smart enough to realize you shouldn't take unrecommended medications that can kill you...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/04/15/coronavirus-chloroquine-test-halted-drug/2983129001/

Let Darwin do his thing and keep drinking the kool aid, ergo Lysol, Ted! Too sad.

Interesting take on the Baluch gunmakers. That’s sort of like telling them no more projects until they send stuff in to be proofed. So, the sky is falling crowd wants inaction while waiting on traditional clinical trials?

Funny, no one respects Congresswoman Whitsett’s opinion on the value of off label use of therapeutics. Weird, she has the proper race, gender and party affiliation. Hypocrisy.

https://youtu.be/5zckrDFVY84


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I went for a walk earlier and a sketchy fellow stopped me and said he had the
“good stuff”. Took his hand out of pocket and showed me a bottle of Lysol.

A total and complete mystery Craig....


https://news.yahoo.com/fda-not-hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-135958144.html

SKB,

Hold on there, the world renown, scientifically scrutinized, peer reviewed americanthinker is proof all this science hoopla is just some derangement.

Let them guzzle it.

Is it just me or wasn't HDC just fine for the last 70 years or so until Trump recommended it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one when I say I know someone who has a regular prescription for it. Perhaps those naysayers can't tell the difference between an aquarium cleaner and a properly prescribed drug taken in the correct amounts.

And let's see, I've been giving this one a lot of thought over the last 5 weeks as a 61 yo with asthma and COPD. I'll take my chances with an off label prescription of HDC rather than getting put in a coma and hooked up to a respirator. YMMV

CB, its you. HDC is just fine for its intended purpose, taken under the advise and observation of a medical professional. It ceases to be fine when its treated like a cure all snake oil from a medicine bowl.

FWIW, I hope you don't find yourself in that position.

James,
I think an objective review of what we know now shows that neither HDC or a ventilator are effective treatments for Covid 19. The recent study I saw showed about a 1% less survival rate for those taking HDC than those without it. Conclusive? No, but I think the FDA is giving the best advice they can with the information they have. I do not think they put out that statement just to make Trump look bad.

Steve

Great find Steve, so what’s the point? Factually, all that’s being said is not to use it on high risk patients with certain cardiac complications.

I thought you weren’t one of those fellows that gets more out of the I told you so hyperventilating, than reading what it actually says. Don’t all controlled substances have potential side effects and should be used with appropriate cautions? If you take your piece on face value, all it’s saying is use it in the hospital setting, right? There are only two main considerations here, watch the patient die, or to a lesser extent, balance the need/shortage of hospital beds. Getting shot is potentially deadly, so instead of getting cutesie, we point the gun in a safe direction, right?

So what, if better, safer, more effective treatments are developed at a later time, what’s your answer, up the body count for politics in the sort term?

No hyperventilating Craig, just a bit of objective thought on the matter. My answer? How about we let science lead the way.

The USA paper being your source will lead to stupid prizes:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/04/15/coronavirus-chloroquine-test-halted-drug/2983129001/

Nobody recommended chloroquine. Hydroxychloroquine, with an antibiotic and zinc, which, the suddenly rich moochers at NPR conveniently forgot to mention, has shown promise.

But, you wouldn’t care about the truth.

Still stupid.

Best,
Ted

Could you clue me in on where I need to go find the truth Ted?

The whole media is the enemy, except when it isn't is something I at times struggle to grasp.

Wait, maybe I just need to connect these things here

...........

Yup, nobody recommended chloroquine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GuNbGC2D_8

Watch the whole video, its priceless.

If I were you ted, I'd start keeping an eye on your backside. You make such a good sheep that homelessAsshole is gonna start looking for some romance.

I've been debating a COVID denier on Trapshooters.com for 3 weeks and have no interest in doing so here.
If any of the participants wish to be the DoubleGun COVID expert please go back one month and read every article here and then get back with us
https://connect.medrxiv.org/relate/content/181
and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/
and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/index.html

Things are changing so rapidly that no one can keep up and those on the front lines are desperately trying to make the best decisions with inadequate information.

I'm not directing this at any particular poster on this thread but I had not been looking at this forum as of late because of the endless B/S being posted.

I got on a few days ago & there was this interesting,informative & ON TOPIC thread by Canvasback & CJO on the Linder Daily restoration & I thought "wow this forum is getting back to where it used to be" & in just a few days it does a 180 degree turn & we are once more dealing w/another endless O/T B/S waste of time thread like this one.

Most of you guys are really wasting your knowledge & expertise getting sucked into this & a few are as an unhappy ex girl friend once said of me "seriously in need of professional help".

If anything at least we learned how to make a thread on bollocks sxs worse.

Never mind the bollocks here’s the ________________?


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I’m going to knock everyone of you out. Tom Sestito

Why don't you just pm nca? He'll tell you, truth is, all medical decisions are only supposed to be between the patient and the doc, right? Or, is that only for women's health?

Does he come on before or after Hanity on Fox?

Here you go, Ted....
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.18.20070797v1
(click on the pdf preview. had to take my socks off)
((that was in Doc Drew’s links))


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According to my calculations, yer fooked.

Oh no, I'm not falling for that. The science says, that where you get updates, it's statistically insignificant if they have eight or ten viewers. But hey, I'll say a thanks again to Sam W for the engraving pictures. Nice animal forms, but he does know his way with balancing out his scroll work, really nice.

I think we are up to 200 deaths from Kung Flu, here in the land of sky blue water. Not even a good flu year total, much less a hot weekend in Chicago.
The blue governor wants us shut down until after the election, no surprise I suppose, but, they classified the death of the guy who got hit in the head at the bus stop by the woman who had her ass hanging out the window of the pickup truck as COVID19 related.

Best,
Ted

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A 400? That would be like, 75 pounds and three decades ago for me,
regardless of what bugs are in the air.

Holy Moly!!! Look guys, the Baluch are present in 3 countries Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. And they
-- hate the central governments - of all of them,
-- hate each other,
-- are arrogant and egotistical,
-- nurse feuds which last for years,
-- love guns,
-- hate overseers,
-- insist on their own authority in everything.
-- absolutely have to share "news" whenever you pass by,
-- are utterly prideful,
-- most eat hashish to deal with the heat,
-- are absolutely incapable of uniting on any issue of national importance.

Dang....I was wondering why this board of bigoted misanthropic sociopaths united around this theme.

The topic is motorcycles. Try to stay on it, please and thank you.

That CB-F concept has a detuned ‘blade motor in it. Should be here next year.
Fingers crossed.


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Nobody cares about your bollocks.

Steve, I'm trying not to politicize the issue when it seems everyone already has. I don't mean just here, I mean everywhere. What I really see is a whole bunch of people who were supposed to know better, make some serious mistakes early in the game. And human nature being what it is, those kind of mistakes are hard for many to walk back. What I'm describing seems to have happened in most countries and it's not a Dem vs Rep things. IMHO it's more a "who's in power" vs their opposition.

I don't want to get into a bunch of specifics in this thread. I'm not trying to convince anyone. But because CV19 hit my family early and because I seem to be in a high risk category and because I have the time, I have done a LOT of reading of more scientific reports and other sources of info in the last 6 weeks than I thought possible. Big mistakes everywhere. I'm satisfied with my take on things.

Mostly, I think we will look back on Covid19 and see how it exposed the soft underbelly of the world wide misunderstanding of the threat of China, the foolish, bureaucratic nature of major "health" agencies and how their political considerations got in the way of good health decisions and how once on the wrong track, how hard it is to admit the mistake and the lengths, both conscious and unconscious, people will go to to justify their position or choices.

Now, having said this, I'm hoping most will see the value in getting back to more interesting subjects.....like doubles.

pod, this is a great observation. Just look around this forum, and you will see a bunch of guys who are so brilliant, they support and vote for the same Liberal Left Democrats who have been working very hard for over 40 years to gut our 2nd Amendment Rights.

rocky mtn bill and the transgender nca225 are right at the top of the list of fools who support those who unashamedly violate the or Oath of office. Yet they think Donald Trump is the treasonous and dangerous one.

Of course, they also think Democrats could do a better job than Trump of handling the Covid19 pandemic crisis. But New York, under the leadership of Democrats Cuomo and DeBlasio has more Covid19 cases in one state than any entire country in the entire world... assuming China is telling the truth... which is doubtful... But racist to say so according to anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats.

You can't fix stupid.

You lost me at “Detuned”.

Is that like the opposite of piped, jetted, and on NOX?

Best,
Ted

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Going from 1 liter to 400cc is detuned enough, right?

Well this is just shocking... coming from a self-proclaimed "Independent Moderate". If Obama or Hillary was in office, and touted widely reported early success with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-Trump Libtards here would be clamoring for a Nobel Peace Prize... from ALL 57 STATES AND THE WILD WEST PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA!

Now we hear this "Independent Moderate" reporting that ventilators aren't all they were cracked up to be. Yet just a few weeks ago, most anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats were screaming that Trump wasn't doing enough to instantly provide ventilators. However, even the very Liberal biased Snopes will not say that it is false that the Obama administration is partly responsible for the shortage of N-95 respirators. And Snopes wasn't able to tell the truth about the lack of any American flags at the start of the 2016 Democrat National Convention

It doesn't take a lot of brains to see what is going on here... which means rocky mtn bill is hopelessly lost.

It would be great to just forget about Baluch Bullshit and Covid19 fallacies from the far Left. It would be great to just discuss double shotguns. But then we wouldn't know who among us is undermining our gun rights by blindly supporting anti-gun Democrats. And we wouldn't know that Brittany Man is too weak willed to simply click the mouse and move away from subjects that bother him. Too funny!

Well, at least you’re on topic.

I see Argo edited his post... the bollocks eat hash to beat the heat.
Try air conditioning MF’ers.


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Is it?

I put that line in there for you LR. They drink alcohol as does everyone in Pakistan and Afghanistan including the Mullahs at the Grand Mosques. For a/c....you need what?

Not interested in less than about 140 horse pressure. 160 is better. Get a 400, any 400 to do that, and it’ll be worth looking into.

Best,
Ted

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Throwback shotguns are OK. Not throwback motorcycles.

An air conditioner?

I was going to say grab a Miller Lite but Ted would have slagged me for that.


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What year is that FJ again?

1989. Old Japanese bike isn’t a good thing, usually, unless a bunch of crazy Legends car racers decide that is the best motor to use for building Legends cars.

Good support.

Best,
Ted

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Piped and jetted you’d understand. R1 wheels and brakes, maybe not.
Ever hear of Race Tech?

Yeah. Played a gig with him in Mankato once.

Not looking to be Freddie Spencer.


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Slow Ride. Take it easy.
https://youtu.be/GcCNcgoyG_0

So far, Ted gets the prize for a post even remotely involving engineering.

What we really need is some genetic engineering to enable our Libtards to remove their heads from their ass. We put a man on the moon in less than a decade of incredible engineering... But even the best engineering on earth can't fix stupid.

Nor should we try.

SRH

No you didn’t.

Best,
Ted

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I don’t want to be Freddie, either. But I’m OK with better equipment.

“Detuned”

D-Tuning belongs in the guitar thread.

Keith, Since you mentioned me, I feel free to advise you to huff a spray can of Lysol. It will cure all your worst problems and some of my minor ones too, guaranteed.

A whole can Bill? Sounds like fun, but everything in moderation, eh?

Exactly.

"We have to take care of the cure that will make the problem worse no matter what" -Sleepy Joe Biden-


Exactly, Ha HA HA HA !!!!

You have to consider that the extreme anti-gun Democrat Joe Biden is very old and demented...

...almost as old and demented as rocky mtn bill.

I may be old, but I'm still smart enough to see that Keith's president is utterly incapable of rational thought or informed opinion. These handicaps are no issue for Keith since they're also the ones he's incapable of recognizing in himself. As an aside, Keith, what exactly is there about being trans-gendered that makes the term one of your favorite insults? Like many bullies, you feel some pathetic need to present yourself as alpha male. Pray tell, how do trans-gendered people threaten you?

Ok I totally agree with Bill on this one, transgender is a mental disorder like liberalism. We should all have compassion for those with that illness, mocking them doesn’t do anything.

RARiddell, I feel better already. And, Keith, Lysol kills paranoia. Give it a try. Any change will be a gain. You have nothing to lose.

Yeah, Joe is old and and its showing, but compared to that retarded idiot trump, Joe looks like Hawking when trump is telling America the cure is to drink Lysol.

Your dear leader told you to drink lysol keith. Show your love for him and don't let him down. trump is counting on you.

Thank God the lite beer thing went away...


Best,
Ted

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My expectations ‘ain’t what they used to be.

All a Twitter over a widely spread statement, and virtually ignoring the consequences of the leftist governors of New York, New Jersey, and California seeing to it that the nations most vulnerable population actually had COVID19 patients put into nursing homes with the unlucky oldsters who resided there.

A war crime. Collateral damage is the hallmark of good leftist leadership, always.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/nu...ZGFMFNjzOjtY3u4

Top that one, Chris.

Best,
Ted

I don't quite think so. He might be old, but jo doesn't seem like much of a germaphobe around anything he perceives to be female, huh, bill? Ole jo just switches on the angry jo or dementia jo when a good dose of paranoia would probably be healthier, eh? Don't sell youself sort as being old, look at all progressive America has to offer you.

Just kidding with you bill, I know he really can't switch the dementia part on and off. If he becomes prez, part of putting covid in the rear view mirror will be running his fingers through his veeps hair on coronation night, right? There's a constant that'll be a gain, buckets of chinese bicarb for his 'investors'.

Scott Adams put it best when he said “There was a massive IQ test on the internet today”

A lot of people, some posters right here, failed it.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-chec...or-drink-bleach

Best,
Ted

...anyone have any luck with that equation in Doc Drew’s link? According to my calculations Ted should have been on a ventilator by now.


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I’d bet that ain’t the only thing.

The good news is flu deaths the last couple of months are at zero.

Bad news is the same as always, no one here gets out alive.

Best,
Ted

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If you can get beer in hell, it’ll be lite beer.

Only for the Cathies. The Prods get ice water.


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On a Sunday no less! (it is Sunday, isn’t it?)

Oh that is easy one ted.

here ya go, this idiot, in general:

https://newrepublic.com/article/156694/coronavirus-trumps-worst-nightmare

https://icelandmag.is/article/icelandic-...ica-look-stupid

here is another one of the same idiot:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/16/donald-trump-is-proving-too-stupid-to-be-president/

I could go on and on ted as the list of sources for this inexhaustible, but you get the point..I think...but since you have been showing your density lately, the point is straddling our country with the absolute dumbest person in history to be president, destroying our credibility, making a mockery of American greatness across the world, selling out our national interests to our adversaries and then sitting around playing tweedle dumb during a pandemic is the crime of the century ted. One you participated in.

I know for a hayseed like you this is difficult stuff to figure out. Just about as difficult as taking a Partridge on the wing, hence your proclivity for ground shooting.

Still, I could go on highlighting these shortcomings, but I don't need to pick low hanging fruit.

On to your article.

First off, credit is due where credit is due. I appreciate your are attempting to make a point by citing a reputable source of information. Well done. The NYT is many levels above americanthinker. Keep it up.

As for your premise, I have a question...Did you actually read the article? I ask because if you had, you would realize that your assumption is, as per usual, wrong.

The guidelines requiring this that these states have in place were done at the direction and put into effect by officials at each State's respective Department of health. Not by the democratic Governors. Sorry, It appears that Governor Cuomo didn't create this, however he is keeping this in effect, but why? Maybe the answer to that draws into consideration a bigger question. What to do with the elderly covid patients, whom were in a facility? If they have Covid, but don't require a hospital bed, where do they go? They were in a facility before, and the hospital now needs their bed for a new patient, so they can't stay at the hospital.

Do you send them home? They were in a facility for a reason, probably because they required an assisted living environment, so sending them home to take care of themselves is a no go. Do you send them to live with the their family? Now you have exposed them, and chances are they were in a facility because their family could not give them the appropriate care, so home with family isn't an option either.

Do you send them out on the street? That ain't gonna happen.

Sadly the best option is to put them back in a facility, as alluded to in the article you cited.

"But states are increasingly turning to nursing homes to relieve the burden on hospitals and take in Covid-19 patients considered stable enough to be released."


You will note, that it indicates "States" Not just NY, NJ and CA. In fact the article goes onto state...

"Beth Martino, spokeswoman for the American Health Care Association, which represents nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, said her association had heard that a number of states were considering measures similar to those in California, New Jersey and New York. But many others haven’t offered any guidance on the matter."

You will also note, that your premise that these facilities have to take on these patients is incorrect. The article clearly states that the nursing homes have to be able to take these patients in only is it is safe to do so.

"Mr. Cuomo reiterated that nursing homes had to accept the patients — but only, he clarified, if they could do so safely. Homes unable to comply should transfer them to other facilities or notify the state Health Department"

It does not seem that these facilities have no choice does it ted?

As you can see, a thorough read of your article reveals an understanding inconsistent with your premise.

Perhaps some confirmation bias got in the way of clear thinking ted?

What the NYT article does do is give a pretty good indictment of our healthcare system in general.

Several places thoughout show where the lack of funding, lack of PPE and financial incentives on behalf the nursing homes themselves compelled them to re-admit these patients.

"Richard Mollot, executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition in New York, an advocacy group for residents, said he had heard of several nursing homes that had declined. But the vast majority, he said, have a “tremendous financial incentive” to take in new patients."

It also seems that it is the Democrats that are seeking to change this:

"Jonathan G. Jacobson, a Democratic assemblyman whose district includes Poughkeepsie, has urged New York health officials to reverse the directive, calling it “misguided.”

FWIW, I agree that it is misguided. The approach CT and MA are taking seems to be a better one:

"Connecticut and Massachusetts both set aside facilities to care for Covid-19 patients. One in Connecticut started accepting patients from hospitals last week. Massachusetts emptied one site of other residents and reopened seven closed facilities to treat positive patients."

Did you also see that the article also highlighted the alternative? As spelled out by your article, lets look at the plight of poor Mr. Stubits.

"Without clear guidelines, patients in hospitals faced the question of where they should go if nobody wants them.

John Stubits, 96, a former civil engineer, was sent by a Michigan memory care center to a nearby hospital on March 30, where he tested positive for the virus. He briefly improved, and the hospital searched for somewhere to discharge him, according to his daughter, Eva Stubits. His previous residence would not accept him unless he tested negative for the infection; no other home in the state would take him.


John Stubits, 96, was being treated for the coronavirus when his hospital discharged him to a nursing home.

Ms. Stubits said she was told that her father would be sent to a home in Ohio, more than an hour away. But those plans unraveled when Mr. Stubits became much sicker. Last week, his daughter learned that the hospital planned to send her father to a nursing home in Detroit with poor ratings. After many phone calls, Ms. Stubits found another home about 30 minutes away from his previous residence.

“The hospitals are desperate to get them out, and they don’t care where they go,” she said. “If you don’t know any better, your relative could end up in a really bad place.”

Despite everything, on Friday, Mr. Stubits died at the nursing home."

Its a sh!tty situation for everybody ted, especially for areas of high population density, sh!tty for hospitals, nursing homes, and medical professionals. Its shitty because the Federal Government"s approach is to do nothing, but bluster about how high the dear leader's television rating are.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bo...ll-rises-2020-4

We are in this shitty situation because of that idiot's complete and total incompetence. An idiot you put in charge.

Keep on flailing. Too funny. But if you have the wherewithal to counter with some reasoned thought and facts, have at it. Although I'm doubtful. The last time I showed you were factually incorrect over the amount of net gain of jobs under the Obama administration, you flew away from that more gracefully then the Sally Field as the Flying Nun. Which is why I doubt that you have any courage for any conviction.

Be a good sheep. HomelessAsshole is lurking.

I'll remind you, nca, while smugly thinking the NYT is beyond reproach, that they are the newspaper that published an op/ed piece two years ago by a guy claiming that muzzle-loaders will be the next big thing for mass shooters. You know, because their sale is so unregulated.

No one has a corner on good info regarding CV19. No one hasn't been wildly wrong.

Yabut, who siezed the opportunity by lying about needing a whole bunch of gear and more hospital beds? Your President built field hospitals and sailed five hundred beds into the heart of ny. Hmmm, why didn't you mention there were a glut of unused hospital beds in your [censored] tale?

No, the true value of your [censored] tale is to demonstrate the type of 'logic' a progressive will use for their agenda, eh nca, you know to unite, sound reasonable, and find middle ground, right? Hey, that work for any issue of the minute, eh?

Yuk, yuk, yuk. The software censored me. I was was just keyboard ninjaing, but the software knew you.

You have mistaken me CB. In my post I was not arguing the superiority of NYT reporting, although I did state it is more reliable then the americanthinker.

Rather that was an article ted provided in an attempt to make is ill informed point.

My response was to disabuse ted of his incorrect presumption, with the very artifice he used to assert it. Thats all.

Stay healthy and safe up there.

As Craig pointed out, there were more than adequate hospital beds in every one of those States, some of them put there quickly, on a Federal level. You point out each state had a department of health that made the decision to warehouse the sick with the population most likely to be killed by it and ask why, ignoring who has been in charge of those states for the past 50+ years.

Idiots. And the lackeys of those same idiots. There will be no disabusing what is plainly obvious. The leadership in those states are oblivious.

Put the virus victims with the elderly in the nursing homes. What could possibly go wrong? To use some worn out lefty logic, how about we say “If there was even one fatality from this, how about we have a war crimes tribunal, and, just like in the real world or the military, the leadership hangs along with the scrubs who did it?”

Nice to see you aren’t quoting the McPaper today, Chris.

So, you never got back on the question of who left the Federal supply of N95 masks depleted, after the SARS epidemic?

Best,
Ted

Its nice to see your giving your mouth a break thrifty. Well, at least for time it takes you to switch from one donor to the other...

Anyways, Yabut, yabut,... what? Perhaps you didn't (want to) see this...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/cuomo-responds-trumps-criticisms-70208971

As far as embarrassing that idiot, looks like Cuomo not only ate trump's BigMac, but also his Quarter Pounder for lunch!

But hey just in cased you missed it, The numbers NY was using to estimate needed beds came from trump's own administration. So the lie, if there was one started with your boy.

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Cuomo-Governors-who-have-states-that-have-fewer-15207968.php

Thanks for the good wishes. I don't think I was mistaken. I understood the point of your post. I was simply pointing out that suggesting the NYT is somehow more credible than American Thinker because...I don't know..... it leans left and AT leans right.....have I got that.....Maybe not such a good idea.

Still see you are having reading comprehension problems ted. You should really go back and read that article.

But as for your other question... Who cares what Obama did or didn't do refiling the stockpile? The conclusions from his actions over a decade ago do not matter one little bit today.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-coronavirus-masks/

Maybe, if trump didn't send most of what we had to China, there would not be the shortage problem we have today, and are moot for discussion, as that was over a decade ago.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/20...ective-equipme/

But lets look at your feeble argument about what Obama did over a decode ago a little differently.

Lets say I owned a general store some years ago. Lets say that at some point, about 4 years ago it was time for me to retire and I hand it off to the next owner of the store, in this case, you. But before I left the store in your more than capable hands, I did not restock the inventory.

Only a fu@king idiot would take over the store and not replenish the inventory and then complain about it being my fault 4 whole years later.

Your point here is stupid. Nearly as dumb as what we get from the rest of the cabal. No surprises there.

While I'll agree that the NYT isn't the best, its not even in the same cosmos as americanthinker. There is a degree to everything!

Hi nca, I'm not the biggest fan of clicking on links.

Apparently it's not possible to leave dnc talking points or media agenda out of the picture. Do you dispute that the USNS Comfort is about the leave a Manhattan pier, a thousand available beds with a reported only a hundred and eighty-two used over the last month. Shouldn't the question be, why isn't the gov stepping back and asking them to help infected nursing home patients recover at a distance from the most vulnerable population of this particular viral infection?

The temporary 2500 bed capable field hospital at the Manhattan Convention Center is said to have had no more than 500 beds used, just twenty percent and no where near all at once? What is stopping the gov from designating just a handful of those beds for the purposes of separating those with known covid infections from the most vulnerable in this predicament?

With the resources available to a dem in power, shouldn't his actions and your logic best be looked at as nothing more than insight on how you advance any agenda? Any.

Uh oh Ted, the mean, ef bombing, nca is coming out, probably learned that from ole jo. I wonder if nca can provide a little insight as to how that strengthens his position, or helps regular folks understand what dementia jo would do for them and their country?

LOL I'll repeat. Muzzle-loaders the next weapon of choice for mass shooters intent on mayhem. If they can be that wrong on that subject they can be wildly wrong on any subject.

So yeah, there is a degree.

Is it safe to assume that no one had any luck with that equation?
No worries, it’s Pashto to me too.
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I tried to learn Pashto....?


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Musa Qala during Ramadan. Good times...
(at least one of us is on topic...sorta kinda)

I know that you are not about clicking links that give you information thrifty. That would require you to have the capacity to learn something. That ship sailed a long time ago. Speaking of ships, I don't deny that the USS Comfort is leaving port. Why would I need to deny that? Although, I don't think you have a good understanding of what an assisted living facility is, and needs to do. Had you an understanding, then you would know that a military hospital ship or a make shift hospital such as the one in the convention center, would make a very poor assisted living facility for the elderly. If they came from an assisted living facility , that would be where they need to go because of the resources for elderly care they have there. Had you read what I wrote, instead of grasping at the straw man, you would know that I'm supportive of MA's and CT's approach. Designate certain facilities for Covid-19 patients and keep the health one's separated at different facilities from those.

Perhaps, at taxpayers expense, we could build some more assisted living facilities? China (supposedly) builds hospitals in a week. We use to build liberty ships in a less than 24hours. Might not be out of the realm of possibility. Oh wait, that would mean you would have to pay some extra taxes for some other people 's benefit. That kind of idea sinks like a lead balloon around here.

And since you've fallen back on your old trope of an "agenda", you see soooooo many of those its hard to keep track of em. So please, as specifically as possible, what agenda are you referring too?

Seems that many of you clowns have a tendency to confuse incomplete information with lying. Early on, no one knew what was going to happen with this virus, so they had to run with the best info available. Different experts had different opinions, and that led to different recommendations and conclusions. The outcomes are what they are, and we have to deal with things as they are now, not as we thought they might be. Armchair quarterbacking is easy, especially with 20/20 hindsight, so quit the pissing contest and go about having a constructive discussion.

On another note, Trump is far from perfect but he was running against Hillary. Both parties put up crappy candidates, and we, at least, got the lesser of two evils. In that contest, I’ll take Trump any day. Same for 2020 if it’s Trump vs Biden. YMMV.

Then drink Lysol. As far as the good of the nation is concerned, that is all your good for.

After voting for Trump?

Or before?


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Ted, you go for a ride or what?

Preferrably before, but certainly afterwards to make amends.

https://youtu.be/y1C8C7op9LU


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Than

Give this man a prize.

Something tells me if you had an innie, you'd try to convince the gals at the tofu and sprouts take out place that it was actually detuned cajones. I defer to your vast experience with assisted living requirements, but hurry before some progressive sidesteps your hypocritical philosophizing, and starts offering end of life options for the discarded, eh.

I don't think so. If we had a jeb or a mit, there'd be no sunshine with manicured little briefings, and kitty like push back on left wing driving of the narrative. If a dem were prez, what do you think this world would be like if justin had a kindred spirit down south, china and who steering us through this, and media nodding in agreement?

Actually, its the other way around. Nursing homes aren't set up to deal with life threatening illnesses. Residents of these facilities are generally suffering from stable health problems, when they require more than basic health care, they get sent to a hospital. The naval ship was set up as a hospital, which would be where elderly covid patients should go, not a nursing home.

Craig, my point is simply that you can't go anywhere in the world and not find politicians and "health experts" who haven't been wrong. About every aspect of this and in every direction.

That doesn't stop idiots like Shiney Pony (that's what we call him up here) using it to cozy up to China. I'm not saying it hasn't been politicized. But everything is. The difference in this case is as weeks have gone by since Jan 1, they have all been wrong at one time or another.

Well, yah. Unless a dem is in charge. Makes you wonder what is in it for them when they give higher priority to the refrigerated semi temporary morgues then to the temporary hospitals. What is in it for them?

Chris has moved up from quoting the McPaper to Icelandic times. Like Craig said, careful what links you click on, this isn’t moving up in the world.

No ride today, Lonny. Visiting disabled family. Yes, it is Sunday. Bike is down for shims at the moment. Shim over bucket is the hot tip, if you are doing it yourself.

Best,
Ted

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Sunday, but, the liquor store is still open. Good thing, I got some stuff to do.

Might be able to get this thread back on topic, but I doubt it.

The Goose has threaded adjusters. On all FOUR valves. Even I can do that.

Lowballed a dealer on a V7. I heard him sigh and we were texting. See what happens.


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Kroger had a digital coupon for Jim Beam Apple. Meh. It ain’t awful.

The older air cooled Katanas had threaded adjusters. Spend all day taking the bodywork off, adjust valves in 10 minutes, spend the next day putting all the body work back on.

Lowballing is good. Riding is better.

Best,
Ted
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Jim Beam Apple? Does jOe drink that?

And… Another one bites the dust!

Hahaha... this is perfect!!!...

RARiddel insults both Billy and the transgender idiot nca225 by saying that being transgender or liberal is a mental disorder... And Billy thanks him for it.






So sorry I had to work today, and missed all of the stupidity as Nancy-boy nca225 and Billy were actively posting. I'm glad Ted posted the link with Trump's actual words, proving he never told anyone to inject or drink Lysol or bleach.

Naturally, Trump's actual words were not good enough for Nancy-boy, who had to question Ted's source. Then this Libtard Democrat sock-puppet does his own dump of demonstrably biased and dishonest Liberal Left Democrat sources... including Snopes.

Snopes is such a biased and dishonest fact-checker, that they actually claimed that it was false that the Democrats did not display the U.S. flag st the start of the last Democrats National Convention. However, there was both photographic and video evidence showing no flags being displayed. Better yet, the DNC totally discredited Snopes by apologizing for not displaying the U.S. flag.

Ted also did a great job of reminding these two Libtard idiots that states with Democrats in power have the absolute worst numbers of Covid19 cases and deaths. But it is even worse than Ted said. Check out the top ten worst states to see how many bastions of Libtardism you see.

This is not surprising, since we all know by now that states and cities controlled by Democrats are typically the worst, of the worst when it comes to having high taxes, high violent crime rates, high poverty, poor education systems, homelessness, corruption, debt, unemployment, drug problems, and gun control... lots of gun control.

It is equally amusing to see Nancy-boy making excuses for putting elderly nursing home patients in danger. If Trump had done it, we'd never be able to shut them up, and I have no doubt our Libtards will find some way to blame Trump anyway.

Nancy-boy is also upset with Ted for bringing up the fact that the Obama administration depleted the supply of N-95 masks, and didn't replace them. Nancy-boy nca225 thinks it is unfair to blame Obama for something that happened 4 years ago. But these Libtards were still blaming Bush and Cheney for all of the Nation's ills 8 years later, including not fixing immigration problems... even after Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and White House.

Demented indeed.... And as dishonest as can be. And did I mention that they are even stupid enough to vote for extreme anti-gun Democrats like Alzheimer Joe Biden? You can't get much dumber than coming to a firearms enthusiasts forum and attempting to get gun owners to vote against their interests, and for someone like Biden who absolutely will violate our 2nd Amendment Rights.

Aside from the fact he is anti 2nd and this is a gun board, it’s Joe Biden, who in the hemoglobins is going to vote for that guy, half the time he has no idea where he is, or what’s going on, but on the lighter side at least he knows about roaches and he likes little kids in his lap. ! If we ever get into a conflict he’ll solve it by doing push ups! Crazy to think this guy is running for the highest office in the country, even crazier the DNC thinks he perfectly fit to do so.

Did you guys catch the snippet about Osama Bin Dead guy’s plans to try to kill President Obama, just because it would lead to a Joe Biden Presidency, and nobody was less qualified to lead the nation than Biden?

I’d quote my source, but, it isn’t necessary. The truth isn’t that hard to discover. But, stay away from Snopes, in any event.

Good work, Keith.

Best,
Ted

[quote=Ted
I’d quote my source, but, it isn’t necessary. The truth isn’t that hard to discover.

Best,
Ted [/quote]

Turns out the truth is not that hard to find after all Ted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0Hcnuro-Q

Not like it is hard to find, but, I can understand you needing help:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonsto...ome-pr-n2567522

I guess I have to cross reference sources or it doesn’t count these days:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...5RGS_story.html

I never watched that show on TV, because I didn’t have a TV. Got one when I was 45, still can’t say I watch it. I had better things to do.


Best,
Ted

Truth Steve, you still on that?

The USNS Comfort supposedly discharged its last ny patient yesterday. The reports say cuomo blamed protocol and back tracked on arm twisting nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and he's starting to talk 'reopening', eh? What's the science say, maybe that north of twenty percent of ny deaths were in those facilities.

News of the day, unlinked and biased or not, those facilities in those locales and the politicians in those locales are running to their favorite place of science, the courts eh?

Is Cuomo running Craig? Keep your focus, this is an election year.

At least Ted still has his eye on the prize.

I'm sure this story will play out as highly relevant in the future....or not.

Steve

Made a little over $11,000 selling puts and calls today.


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America been berry berry good to me.

Who cares about that? Did you start shopping for a decent bike?

Best,
Ted

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My snowblower makes more power than a V7. That doesn’t mean I want
to ride it.

There’s nothing out there right now that’s screaming “Buy me!” right now.
Can’t stand those insect looking bikes, not a supersports guy any more.
Want the Eighties look with modern tech. BMW RnineT is in the mix. Z900RS is too. I’d really like to see that CB-F concept in a 650 next year. Replace the CB-R line with that F. I’m in no rush. Half the fun is looking.


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That’s one heck of a snowblower.

Thats not surprising at all. The GOP aligning itself with Al-Qaeda. I'd say that politics makes for strange bed fellows, but upon further reflection, its been obvious that for a long time, the GOP will get in bed with anybody to help them cheat or steal their way to winning an election.


Kinda begs the question, if Osama Bin Laden wanted Joe Biden to be president, then what does it say about the GOP and...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/putin-trump-win-election-2016-722486

https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-wanted-trump-to-win-2016-election-2018-7

and for 2020...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/europe/putin-trump-2020-election-analysis-intl/index.html

https://prospect.org/politics/why-putin-wants-trump-to-win/

...it looks like even knowing that our adversary wanted this in 2016, the GOP still doesn't mind the helping hand of our adversaries to win an election.

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Thread Buster!
https://youtu.be/Fe93CLbHjxQ

Ever ridden from Sudbury to Toronto on a Friday afternoon? I’ve never ridden a 600 class street bike that felt competent for a run like that, surrounded by crazy Canadiens with no respect for the speed limit, and unaccustomed to watching for motorcycles for 7-8 months of the year. I know where you are, I’ve got a left elbow that shrieks at me after a few hours on a GSXR, but, mark my words, if you own a bike, you will likely find yourself on a road, needing more, if only to escape the situation you are currently in.
Be able to escape that situation. There are few motorcycles being sold today, as compared to what we saw in the 1980s, well, what I saw, anyway, and the cute little bikes they are making today don’t inspire me to get out in front of the Ford Expeditions with a 16 year old female pilot and her cell phone.
If you are busted up enough at this point of life that you will never venture out of the Cul de sac, well, whatever works, I guess. I’ll be there soon enough.

But, I outgrew every 600 I ever bought in a day or so. And I was 35 pounds lighter.

Best,
Ted

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Bought like 12 bikes, brand new. But, the snowblowers are what everyone
wants to talk about, in my world.

Focus? Election year? If you're open to opinion, it's an election four year, at least for one position. If you snooze you lose, might be a bit more honest?

No big deal Steve, it's just an example that'll certainly be long forgotten. I'm just curious about strategies for any, there's that word again that nca couldn't understand, issue. Since when do we need science or facts when dismissal is perceived to be so effective?

Genuine question here, ballpark, what might someone budget to send a gun to the UK for reproof after barrel work? This question is motivated by the 'Chamber Question' thread where there was conversation about an out of proof gun losing value, thus a reason to reproof. No big deal if it's not your preference comment.

HAHAHA! President drone strike was a welcome alternative to the GOP for Al-Qaeda, since Bush did things like turning Tora Bora upside down with B52s.

Like most of the brain dead left, you miss completely that Osama Bin dead guy COULD SEE FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET, IN A CAVE that Joe Biden was an incompetent boob.

HAHAHA!!!!!

Ever ridden from Sudbury to Toronto on a Friday afternoon? I’ve never ridden a 600 class street bike that felt competent for a run like that, surrounded by crazy Canadiens with no respect for the speed limit, and unaccustomed to watching for motorcycles for 7-8 months of the year. I know where you are, I’ve got a left elbow that shrieks at me after a few hours on a GSXR, but, mark my words, if you own a bike, you will likely find yourself on a road, needing more, if only to escape the situation you are currently in.
Be able to escape that situation. There are few motorcycles being sold today, as compared to what we saw in the 1980s, well, what I saw, anyway, and the cute little bikes they are making don’t inspire me to get out in front of the Ford Expeditions with a 16 year old female pilot and her cell phone.
If you are busted up enough at this point of life that you will never venture out of the cul de sac, well, whatever works, I guess.

But, I outgrew every 600 I ever bought in a day or so.Idiots.

Best,
Ted

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Want to talk about a girl named Tara?

I don’t carry a gun either.


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If a 90 HP 650 isn’t enough to get you out of trouble you’re just looking for it.

Horsepower is what that salesman talks about when he isn’t sighing about the lowball offer you just made him.

Best,
Ted

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Three pages of trying to stay on topic, and now I have to teach you about torque
and/or handguns?

I think you had a typo there ted. Sure you weren't trying to call in homelessAsshole?

BAH BAH BAH!

Like a good sheep!

BTW

You'll recall that Barack flipped the tables on them when he had Din Laden executed.

Obama's surgical precision tended to produce results in our war on terror as compared to W's carpet bombing the place when they realized they let Bin-Laden slip through.


Please counter with more Al-Qeada talking points, and perhaps a burka for your SO?

The only thing Obama didn’t screw up when he got into office, leaving the hunt as it had been put in place by the previous administration.

Best,
Ted

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Her name is Tara. Spin that.

And we know how well that hunt turned out...

https://newrepublic.com/article/72086/the-battle-tora-bora

but then again, what hunt?

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4453750/user-clip-clip-presidential-news-conference


FWIW, I actually miss W. For all his faults, at least he didn't tell us we should drink lysol to fight of a virus.

...is trying to sell a fat, old squid a ‘busa.


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Glad I never got fat...or old.

I have not sent anything to the UK in over ten years so can not accurately comment on the cost other than to say the overhead was crazy for a single gun. You need a freight forwarder on both sides and a bonded and insured agent to collect and deliver it on the UK side. Add in shipping and it would be well over two grand in costs I would think. That is unless something has changed.

Thanks much Steve, it gives me some idea.

Ted, No conservaturd here has ever responded to my pointing out that GWB killed 5000+ US military and as many as 200,000 civilians in the Iraq war, all for nothing. Yes, some Dems fell for the fudged intel, but they didn't make the final decision. Since Vietnam, this is the worst American act of the 20th C. What would you claim is comparable in Obama's record? I don't expect a response since none could possibly suffice. But don't despair, Trump will make us all whole , safe , and prosperous any day now, if we don't run out of Lysol. PS: For those of you who don't like political posts here, tell the Trumpeters to knock it off.

Ted, are you complaining about how Canadians drive on the way to the cottage Friday afternoon? Hahaha. Made that drive about a millions times. Most of it's gone now. All 4 lane divided hwy but for a section north of Parry Sound and south of Sudbury.

When I used to keep my sailboat north of Parry Sound, there would be one dead guy every weekend. We drive to and from the cottage like we play hockey. It's a blood sport.

By my count Bill that's about 8 or 9% of the Americans killed by Kennedy and LBJ in Vietnam. At least the way you apportion blame.

BTW Love that conservaturd label. First time I've heard it.

CB, I give Kennedy and LBJ no pass. As, I said, Since Vietnam... PS: I love your Linder.

Thanks Bill. I like it too. Can't wait to shoot it.

Awe, the trumpets of love reign over the darkness.

Pikers. I-75 going north out of The Motor on a Friday in the 70’s.


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Drawbridge up in Zilwaukee? Gun it!

CB, Conservaturd is my contribution to the political lexicon here. Until I got called one, I had never heard the term libtard. I just thought there ought to be an equivalent label. I have to say though that putting a label on someone or on a group is not any accomplishment. We're each of us someone unique. And Canada and the US are places where all those differences are respected and supported. I'm glad for that.

Awe, group hug, eh bill? You almost convinced me that there'll be three hundred some odd million names on the ballot this fall.

Canada and hockey...



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It’s a blood sport. canvasback
https://youtu.be/4C5rQu7yvJo

I like this one, Bill. You gotta break eggs to make an omelet:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/...t-into-n2458115

Best,
Ted

Actually, going the OTHER way, James, Sudbury to Toronto on a Friday night. I was invited to participate in a buddies wedding, sent my dress clothes via UPS to Buffalo, and rode my 750. Crossed at Sault St. Marie, went past a lot of Canada that had no traffic, and entered a combat zone of traffic headed south. They were mostly driving mini vans and low end Japanese sedans at like 110mph. Had I known it was coming, and the attitude of the Mounties to it all, it would have been more fun. About 50 times I said to myself “thank God I have the 750, instead of my Brother’s Seca 600”, which, was new, and that I had considered taking.

I’ve been on 75 in Michigan on a bike, heading north, a few times. When people complain about unbeautiful US interstates, that is the road they are talking about. It moves along OK, once you are out of the southern end of the state, but, nothing like I saw in Canada. It is beautiful looking down into the water from the grating on the bridge, when you are on a bike.

Best,
Ted

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I didn’t care for the inadvertent wheelies that happened when on a Busa.

Ted, the speed limit on the expressway that runs past my town is 100 kph.....62 mph. It's called the 401 and through Toronto it is 12-16 lanes wide and the busiest highway in NA. It is only 6 lanes where I am. I have passed the OPP (No Mounties working traffic in Ontario) doing 130 kph. I don't mean a speed trap. I mean with the flow of traffic past a cop car going down the road with us. You really have to work to get pulled over.

In over 40 years of driving the 401 I have been pulled over once. Was driving at 145, talking on the phone and not wearing a seat belt. Up here, talking on the phone that isn't a full hands free is worse than speeding. The motorcycle cop had to chase me for 8 mile or so because I didn't notice him. LOL He had to come up beside and wave me over. When he asked where I was going in such a hurry and who was I talking to, I said my soon to be ex....I'm in the middle of divorcing her for cheating on me. He let me off.

Yea, the cops were passing me, too. It came to a screeching halt in Toronto, took me an hour to get through town, in the rain.

It was a hell of a wedding. Buddy was childhood friends with the GooGoo Dolls.

Best,
Ted

Where do I sign up for the fun Canada. The little I know about driving around up there, I suppose more out in the plains, is watch out for the speed traps. Maybe it's the US plates, I dunno.

Somewhat surprised you let him buy such an underpowered motorcycle.




Ah yes. I hit the I-75 bridge over the Rouge I know I’m home.


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Oleksiak didn’t know what decade it was after that Wilson k.o.

Not the US plates Craig. They are aggressive out west. Also north of Sault Ste Marie to the Manitoba border. But southern Ontario is largely a free for all. My record is 10 distinct speed traps in the 430 miles from the Soo to Thunder Bay.

Hmmm, Townhall seems to be a bit more credible than american thinker. But still a right wing rag.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-thinker/

vs.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/townhall/

No matter what bike my brother bought, it was a saloon bike. He isn’t a rider anymore.

Neither are you. Sorry.

Best,
Ted
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Your wife was going to tell you, but, I beat her to the punch.

Just checked Media Bias for their ratings on some media outlets I know well. That they put CTV News and CP24 into the "least biased" category (and that was just a quick check) tells me they don't even know their own biases. The two TV news outlets I referred to have a significant left bias.

Ha! Just found The Globe and Mail under centre right. What a joke.

So can we all now agree that media is just fine as long as they are telling you the story you want to hear?

Are you talking to me, Steve?

If I ever get you and Ted on the ice, I’m running both of you.


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Goin’ in your corner every time, Ted.

Not in particular James.

More of a statement in general about how we have several members who like to paint the media as biased yet can not see the bias in the media that they themselves consume.

It was inspired by Ted's comment about the truth.

Irony that is not lost upon me is all.

Well said SKB.

Ah. Cross referencing to that well known bastion of conservative thought, The Washington Post, makes the story invalid, I guess.

Funny, after the intel was declassified, before Sleepy Joe was a candidate, nobody noticed the political leanings of the multiple sources that reported it.

That only matters now.

By the way, James, EVEN BETTER said.


Best,
Ted

Pack a lunch.


Best,
Ted

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It’s going to take you all day.

Fixed it for you.


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Did you get a look at Oleksiak’s face?

You do realize that the nothing burger you posted was an opinion piece right?

Since when do conservatives have such high regard for OBL's thoughts on our politicians?

Looks like OBL felt Obama a capable adversary, and he was right.

Well said Steve, the irony is not lost on me. What inspires me to ask if you're a cutting edge covid researcher? I don't think though that you've disclosed which big corps have a hand in your conclusions, maybe I missed it?

Back to Covid Craig? I had thought the topic at hand was the deep respect on the right for the opinions of OBL.

My conclusions on Covid? What a mess. I am not blaming anyone for it though. Maybe you could point me to the truth?

Haha. I just read LR’s response to my question to Steve. I didn’t mean it quite that aggressively. I hadn’t dropped my gloves. Really couldn’t figure out what prompted Steve’s comment.

I thought it was motorcycles and hockey.


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We have both kinds of music. Country and Western.
https://youtu.be/GGlTq46SKe4

The topic of media bias is interesting. If I go to a right wing info source, I expect a conservative spin. If I go to a left wing source I expect a liberal spin. Neither side disappoints, but there is a difference.

Take for instance Brett Kavanaugh, when the Blasey Ford accused him of rape, with no witness to corroborate her story, a story with more holes than a minnow bucket liner, it was all over the left wing media, and all over the right wing media too.

Now take Joe Biden, accused of rape by a woman with multiple witnesses backing up her story, one of which is a Biden supporter and her mother who called Larry King back in 93 about it, a credible accusation. And of course, its all over the right wing media, but when I go to left wing media, crickets, lots of crickets, maybe a small debunking article down towards the bottom of the website. The Week finally ran an article today by Ryan Cooper concerning it, and Cooper is a progressive that never wanted Biden to get the nomination. And if you want to learn about Biden's rapidly approaching senility, absolutely nothing, just articles about how he has it all together.

The problem with left wing media isn't just fake news, its no news, they bury anything that doesn't advance the agenda.

I read several articles this week on the accusations against Bidden in the mainstream media. Lots of links on MSN news, yahoo, etc.

Just where are you looking Tim?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections...ion/ar-BB13khvC

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/...90s/ar-BB13kT1a

Here's the truth? No, I'm not stuck on covid, just well aware of how forgetable it is, yet remains an example that keeps on giving.

Scratch'in my head Steve, so what's obl doing? Streaming msnbc snipits and barak extreme workout videos from the bottom of some ocean? Your irony is what I tend to call hypocrisy. No not you, yours is funny. Hypocrisy might be ignoring that someone did not get the story they wanted to hear, yet behave as if they did. What's better, ends justifies the means ideology or sheeple? Probably both, so why seek your truth and not emotional triggers?

It sounds as if Nancy-boy nca225 never heard of ISIS.

Yeah, those were the Islamic terrorists who took over a large swath of the Middle East right after the anti-gun Liberal Left Democrat Obama ignored the advice of Military analysts, and pulled almost all troops out of Iraq.

Wow, they sure seemed scared of Obama as they became even worse than Al Qaeda, and mocked Obama with videos of live beheadings of Americans.

Donald Trump wasted no time in kicking their asses and eliminating the threat that Obama couldn't handle at all.

It must suck to be so stupid and pathetic that you have to admire an anti-gun loser like Obama.

Keith, Your adoration of DT is very moving. He's good at tearing things up. Dropping bombs must be the easiest decision he makes. Ask Osama Bin Laden what he thinks of Obama. If you want some entertainment while you shelter, try reading transcripts of Trump's pronouncements. Craig's command of English makes your hero look like a second language emigrant.The poor devil doesn't have a clue, but it doesn't slow him down. He knows how to get elected, but governing eludes him utterly.

And is anyone here surprised to see the self-proclaimed Independent Moderate SKB shilling for the anti-gun Liberal Left Democrat Misogynist, Rapist and Altzheimer Disease poster-child Joe Biden?

But what would we expect from someone who also posted links quoting the known anti-gunner Philip Alpers and the Anti-gun organization GunPolicy.org... to support false assertions about gun registration in New Zealand.

I'm glad Tim in Pa. brought up the point about Biden's personal War on Women. Several of the Trump bashers here were pretty vocal about very old and unsubstantiated claims against Brett Kavanaugh, yet they have nothing to say now about Biden.

Biden could claim he doesn't remember a thing, and no jury would convict... because it is apparent he can barely recall his own name.

Billy, maybe we could pose your question to OBL, because we never saw a corpse. I was touched that your magic Negro wished to show respect for a murderer like bin Ladin, yet showed no similar respect for unborn babies.

But even assuming he was killed, the Intel on his hiding place in Pakistan came directly from the waterboarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed. And we all know that valuable intelligence didn't come from the anti-gun Democrat Obama, who was 100% against waterboarding. That came courtesy of George Bush, who also provided Obama with a roadmap to pulling us out of the Great Recession... which was also caused by insane Democrat mortgage policies.

You just keep returning to show us how utterly stupid you are, but we already know that any gun owner who supports anti-gunners can't have any brains whatsoever.

And Billy, just what is a "second language emigrant"??? Did you perhaps mean "immigrant" when you were insulting our pro-gun President Donald Trump... who unlike Obama, knows there are not 57 states in the USA.



It is great to see you returning to your old improper spelling and grammar as you try to insult Trump. Remember how I used to chide you for being a retired ENGLISH TEACHER who could not spell or write? I advised you to get your grandchildren to help you activate a spell-checker.

With all this OBL talk we’re coming full circle to the Bollocks.

Wish we could have stayed on motorcycles and hockey.


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Dolly and Porter
https://youtu.be/-mVhYJjtdD0

Boy, good thing we're all unique thinkers, eh Bill?

You have emotional outbursts opposing your President. Where's your enthusiasm for biden. Remember how barak used cause tingles up left legs? How come no one's saying they fantasize about jo running his soiled finger through their hair? If it's really shallow, will you join me in calling for jo to pretend like he can walk on water? And you miss dubya, I miss do no wrong mr. perfect, eh?

The one unassailable, not-mentioned fact is the US once had the respect of the world. It doesn't now.

The feeling is mutual.


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Boat Harbour cleaned up yet? Sustainable forestry my arse.

PS

Crosby sure sat his arse down quick when Ovi asked him to fight.


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Russian machine never breaks.

What a joke... what we had under Obama was other countries laughing at us and eating our lunch when it came to foreign trade and taking our good-paying manufacturing jobs. It took Donald Trump to get them to show a little respect by paying a more equitable share of NATO defense costs too. Hopefully, he will do the same to the deadbeats in the U.N. during his second term.

Hey King... why don't you tell us how wonderfully that Canadian gun control is working out in the Wild West province of Nova Scotia? I wonder why you and your favored anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats aren't saying anything about what happened right there in your back yard. And just how in hell does a mass shooting of 22 people along with 16 arson fires go on for nearly 13 hours?

What's your take on why lilJ went along with the USMCA? The respectale of the world hadn't given it a thought prior to Mr. Trump making it a campaign issue, and then go figure, saw it through.

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/opinio...promise-318871/

lol. Sustainable profits is what you meant. Easy peasy when you dump your toxic waste on First Nation’s land.


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Shameful

Very true, sadly. But then there is no reason for the world to respect us now.

Wow lonesome... that is textbook hypocrisy on a grand scale. I hope Billy and Nancy-boy nca225 and BrentD take a minute to click on the link to that article by King Brown, which promotes profits and pollution over timely clean-up of an environmental disaster. The fact that poor oppressed indigenous Native Americans are being told to live with the pollution even longer by King is one of the best example of the hypocrisy of Liberals that I have ever seen.

Bravo!

Punk.


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https://youtu.be/xzI4EJMAwxc

This is what happens to your perception of reality when the lysol burn reaches your eyes.

Why don't you as a Kurd how trump handled ISIS, Syria and Turkey? Greatest betrayal of an ally of all time and all of that slaughter done by Turkey is blood on trump's hands and yours.

And it seems that folly has led to another...

https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-i...ent-isis-2020-2

Just when I think you can't be dumber, you quickly prove me wrong. I should have known better, considering your the guy that brags about getting guns from nazi's

If it irritates your eyes, why don't you just get the inhaler?

Delighted to see you acknowledge your ends justifies the means ideology Craig.

Sheeple? They are where you find them. Blindly following along, one form of extremism or another.


Here is some very good news in regards to Covid19, it comes from the mainstream media so I thought you might have missed it:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-...ber/ar-BB13kVE9

You would need ask Ted what OBL is doing. Ted seems to think OBL's opinion is quite relevant. I am not sure why myself.

Let's see now... we had an ISIS problem and the Kurds had an ISIS problem and the entire civilized world had an ISIS problem. But after Donald Trump took care of it, we don't even hear anything about ISIS.

Obama couldn't fix that problem on his best day.

Same can be said about unfair international trade agreements, unemployment, and long term economic malaise.

Obama was hopelessly incompetent, and in way over his head. And you guys and gays still salivate over the anti-gun loser.

About the Lysol... you and your fellow DNC sock-puppet and parrot Billy can't show us where Trump actually ever told anyone to inject or drink Lysol or bleach. That's because he never said it. Fake News Liberal Press liars twisted his words and created a totally false narrative, and you idiots repeat it... all to support anti-gun Democrats. Of course, for all of the QUOTES you have saved from me, you also cannot show a single sentence where I ever once said I had bought any guns from a Nazi. That is simply another lie that you keep repeating.

It is amusing to see that SKB has the notion that Ted puts a lot of stock in the opinions of OBL. Especially when all of you Libtards have railed on for 3 1/2 years about the idea that Putin has Trump in his pocket. The reality is that Trump has been a massive thorn in his side and imposed massive sanctions on Russia, while Obama had that little Hot Microphone episode where be was caught promising Medvedev he would be "more flexible with Putin after the election." Then he did virtually nothing when, shortly after, Putin marched his military into the Ukraine and annexed Crimea.

That must be the kind of respect the old anti-gun Troll King Brown had in mind when he isn't defending the pollution of Indian lands and waters. I'll bet you and Billy won't go near that example of Libtard hypocrisy.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, Steve, but, you need to post about OBL in past tense.
What I simply pointed out is how the top dog of all terrorists, the one who went down in history as the one who actually pulled it off, the one hunted down by two US administrations, was discovered to be a Biden supporter. His opinion of Biden, seems to mesh very clearly with what we see when the man is allowed to speak freely, although, that is something we won’t see much of from this point on.
I think it would be excellent if you and bill and Chris have that special something in common with Osama Bin dead guy after the next election. Truly fitting.

Back on topic:



A red letter day.

The valve cover is back on, with a fresh gasket, and 8 little rubber boots for the bolts. I got the valves shimmed pretty close to the middle of the specs, repaired a few broken plastic tabs on the fairing, redid some Mickey Mouse wiring (why do people believe it is a good idea to butcher original wiring harnesses?) replaced three relays that went into those harnesses, fixed the headlight and it’s cover, rebuilt the clutch slave, and flushed all the hydraulics. The bike has 17” wheels off an R1, along with the “blue dot” brakes from the same. When new, the bike had 16” wheels, an obsolete motorcycle tire size. Piped and jetted (of course) with progressive front springs and Race Tech emulators in the forks. Waiting on a Morgan Carbtune sync tool, from England, and a little assembly. No hurry, since the state is shut down and I can’t even get a plate for it yet. Good times coming, however.

I used to see a guy at the gun club who rode a Gold Wing, with a scabbard for his shotgun. Wish I had taken a harder look at it, now.

Lonny, what did the salesman say about the V7? Maybe more importantly, how ‘bout Momma?

Best,
Ted

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Peace is good. Today is my 15 year anniversary!

Happy Anniversary Ted!

I am well aware of OBL's death. That was RMB's President who managed that one I believe. My point was, who really cares about that article you linked to? That will not be a factor in how this election plays out.

Covid19, the economy, if the allegations about Bidden prove to be true, all could effect the election. What a dead terrorist thought of one of the candidates will not.

The article you posted.....not so much.

Osama Bin dead guy’s opinion of a presidential candidate wouldn’t matter, Steve, if his reasoning hadn’t been so plainly laid out as to why, and how right on the money that reasoning was.

Biden is exactly the man Bin Laden described. To a T.

Thanks for the wishes. Wife is working from home today, the U calls me in when there is something to do. We might have a little take out celebration later this week.
I have her blessing to wrench in the shop on our anniversary. Note to self-you married the right girl.

Best,
Ted

My guess is that it doesn't really matter on whose watch the death of OBL happened. It was a continuous effort by the military and intelligence agencies that eventually got it done. The issue was the time it took to work it out, not who occupied the Oval Office when the trigger got pulled. That part is just marketing BS.

Completely correct James.

Quite a bit of marketing going on all around us. Hardly exclusive to this instance.

But Steve, what if the article can offer a little bit of fact and uncover some truth, then the election shouldn’t matter, right?

Could be dismissive plays into feeding the mantra of lack of current world respect, and the path that’s chosen to be easy, goes to biden? I suppose covid might be important to some in that it’s the opportunity for advancing universal income, election tampering and some green new carbon redistributing? Or, do you prefer these ‘truths’ to be buried under your intentionally simplistic list of election issues?

Wrong on all counts idiot. Nearly half the achievements trump claims in defeating ISIS were accomplished under Obama.

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/trump-takes-too-much-credit-on-isis/

But then trump gave away the game when he up and left Syria as a birthday gift to Erdogan. Then the Kurds, our allies that were fighting the war against ISIS for us, went from having an ISIS problem to suddenly having a genocide problem from the Turks.


https://time.com/5711596/syria-war-crimes/


https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/syrian-k...ory?id=66671633

That move, abandoning our allies and throwing them under the Turkish bus has been universally condemned, but I guess in your very limited and small intellect that is how we show American greatness.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/...-foreign-policy

And ISIS rebounds.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-colum...he-us-pulls-out


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...ria/4237528002/

But your are an stupid idiot and I’m still not surprised about how dumb you can be as shown by the fact you do not understand that Lysol is a disinfectant. Your right, Trump did not explicitly say Lysol, he said disinfectants, but since your level of cleanliness and hygiene is less then that of a pig in sh!t, it shows that you do not know enough to realize that Lysol is a disinfectant.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-suggests-infecting-disinfectant-video-transcript-2020-4

Transcripts and video suck for you don’t they? I have to admit, I would have expected you to know that one, considering how much you clean your tiara. But then again maybe you just have thrifty spit shine it after he’s done spit shining something else?

And, wrong again on the puppet and his sanctions on Russia

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/20...ussia-barack-o/

Now as for you never buying a gun from Gene the nazi. Nobody here believes that after such a great braggart with posts like these:




And this one too:



I love nothing more then reminding you and the board that you frequented the shop of a nazi and did business with him for what appears to be decades, even at times when he was cheering the death of jews..

You have zero credibility with your claim that you never bought a gun from gene the nazi, and as I reminded you before, your white nationalist views and your own admission of doing business with a nazi while he is concurrently cheering the death of Jews, outs you as a nazi as well.

You are a very sad, and little person. Even smaller then the idiots here that emulate you like thrifty and the sheep.

Me thinks both sides of the aisle has an agenda to advance. Thing is, I'm not comfortable with either of them.

How about the Covid news out of Oxford? Might see a vaccine right about election time it sounds. I'm going to enjoy watching both sides fight over taking credit for the cure, SOP these days eh?

Vaccine?

Have you noticed front line physicians calling for easing the ‘new’ hydroxychloroquine restrictions. Seems the ‘science’ is saying that the efficacy is a good bit better than dr Brent or nca were lobbying for? Possible, I suppose anything is, but vaccines look to be running the normal clinical trials with the exception of less in box hibernating time.

My prediction, the ‘media’ is hoping for an oct roll out, absolutely no doubt in my mind they’ll have their radars on full scan for the couple of adverse reactions that’ll happen to single females of color, right? Then we’ll get into another mantra cycle, if it gains traction. Don’t worry they’ll think of something based on someone’s science.

There are plenty of US troops in the Middle East, Chris:

https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/ar...the-middle-east

Hope this source isn’t too conservative for you.

You, and the McPaper would have us believe there are none, and the Donald pulled them all. And, just like that, ISIS is reborn.

That simply isn’t the case.

Do yourself a huge favor, and stop quoting the McPaper.

Best,
Ted

Ted, I missed your post about OBL favoring Biden. If you could, please post it again. In the meantime, perhaps you could explain what possible significance to anything current that information could have. Your bringing it up seems to suggest that Biden is soft on terrorism. If that's your point, why not just say it and reveal what a sorry-ass stooge you've become for some alternative- fact universe?

Reading a post by you always reinforces for me the notion you went through life and missed most everything, bill, and nothing I say or do will change that sorry ass fact.

I didn’t hide it, bill. Get off your lazy liberal ass and find it.

Almost noon, here. Have a cocktail. Have several, bill.

For that girl that married me:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrr3lRLjZ1Y

Happy anniversary, honey!


Best,
Ted

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I don’t always listen to Crossfade, but, when I do, the neighbors do, too.

Whoa bill, are you okay?

If you don't want to vet biden, just say it. Don't blame the messenger, right? Why don't you want to discuss how much easier it is to have an emotional connection with your guy, when his handlers have him hunkering out of the public eye? Hey, that brings up an important point, if you're not voting for jo, can you give us the qualifications of the nameless and faceless unelected advisors that will make his mouth move and his pen hand sign?

Well there Bo Peep master of sheep you must think you've got me, but then again you didn't read your own article. Probably because you are to lazy to do the research. Some of those troops came after we killed that dirtbag general, but well after we withdrew for Syria where the fight against ISIS was and after the Kurds got slaughtered after trump's and your betrayal of our close allies.

In fact you article doesn't even mention ISIS once nor does it detail its operations in the area since then.

Did you also notice the the military personal numbers were a guess as it indicated the Pentagon stopped publishing them in 2017? Just so you know when some thing states: "There may be...." , whatever that maybe is, is just a guess.

Nothing concrete from you as per usual.

Do yourself a huge favor and stop being lazy and do your homework Ms. Peep.

BTW I was RONTFLMAO when I realized how of little consequence your article was to the argument and all you can do is grasp at straws. Keep it up! Endlessly funny.

Problem with that is he doesn't realize he is a sorry ass stooge. His his posts give it up readily though!

Awe, two internet buddies hook up online. You two should have sorryass t-shirts made, no?

Sounds like a great idea thrifty, we can have a couple made up for you and Ms. Peep. What's your size? Girls size 4 petite?

Oh wait, I shouldn't assume your going gonna pay for Mr. Peep's. You like to go dutch for everything but gratification.

Nancy-boy nca225 is really a trip. If some Fake News Liberal reporter wrote an article claiming that his/her hero Barack Hussein Obama had ended the Great Depression, killed Adolf Hitler, and dropped Atomic bombs on Japan, the idiot would believe it and post links.

Nobody in their right mind thinks that Obama did anything about ISIS except creating the condition that permitted them to thrive, and conquer large areas of the Middle East... all on Obama's watch.
Of course, no gun owner in their right mind would ever actively campaign for devout anti-gunners like Obama or Altzheimer Joe Biden.

I challenged the transgender idiot nca225 to show us exactly where I ever said that I bought a single gun from a Nazi, and as usual we got a lot of fluff. I often visited the local Gunsmithing shop owned by a former German soldier who emigrated to the U.S. after the war, and became a U.S. citizen. But I never bought any guns from him. The idiot has been informed of the facts several times now, but chooses to continue telling lies.

Nancy-boy nca225 has the same defective reading comprehension as rocky mtn bill. This is evidenced by the fact that when they read Trump's actual words, they still insist that he told the public to drink or inject disinfectants. They both see what they want to see, and the truth means nothing to them. This is why RARiddel made the observation earlier that being transgender or liberal is a mental illness.... which makes Nancy-boy nca225 a two-time loser.

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NCA is hilarious and a great study for mental illness! I can see him supporting those moes on the left, they keep the asylums open! All his sources are left wing hatchet pieces! What a joker! Thanks for the laughs!

And not one argument was countered. Thanks for putting up the white flag.

BTW, save for your cadre of swallowers, not one person here believes the above statement. Moreover the stunner that if you say it, its a fact. Enjoy your ill-gotten guns you ol' nazi you.

See the post above. You did not counter one argument either. Thank you as well for putting up the white flag.

Keith, he was driving an RCMP cruiser, wearing genuine Mountie uniform.

Keith, Why is trans-gender an insult? Better yet, how is it a debating point? No one yet has called your sexuality into question. The level of your discourse doesn't suggest robust masculinity. It screams of loud-mouthed bully, always a sign of serious mental issues, like those exhibited by your president.

Mr Tom Miller’s response to King’s newspaper piece.

https://www.saltwire.com/opinion/letter-response-to-kingsley-brown-and-the-mill-325243/


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I’d rather fight a bear than Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin.
(can’t blame Sid for sitting his arse down, King)

no, no white flags needed, arguing with the mentally ill is bad form.

Well RAdingus, you make every attempt to label a liberal as "mentally ill" and then run like a b!tch from the argument. Just shows you got nothing and only want to join in on princess's cadre of swallowers to gain a sense of approval. Well congratulations you made the club. You swallow with the best of 'em and I'm sure princess or one of the cadre will be along to give you approval.

At least Ms. Peep has the balls to try to counter, albeit poorly, but Peep's still got more guts then you for trying.

Psst, Bill, I don’t think anyone is around now. Do you go by bo peep now and then? I’m supposed to be picking up a t-shirt for you? Thanks for the help, and would you ask King why lilj signed the USMCA, twice? Was it out of respect or was he throwing the US a little puppy snack as one of the dons of the world?

Thanks again and please stay six feet away from your electronic devises.

Craig, I have no idea what you intended to say. If you ever figure out a message, let me know in plain English. You tend to write in a sort of alternative code. Keith may understand, but few others do. Conservaturd English is worse than Pigeon.

Chris, the article makes the point there are 60,000 US troops in the Middle East.

Some came out of Syria.

Big deal.

Your McPaper fear mongering of the dreaded return of ISIS hasn’t happened, and, if it did, is a carrier battle group strike away from being just another puff of smoke in a bad neighborhood.

The Kurds are no angels, The Turks have good reason for the hatred, if not the methodology. Try to get over the notion there are good guys and bad guys in the Middle East, and we should be best buddies with anybody.

Best,
Ted

Ted, WTH is McPaper? It's helpful to know there are are no good people in the Middle East. But just in case, do you have a reliable source for that factoid? You say Trump told you? If so, you can bank on it. He'd never lie.

I think he’s trying out a big boy voice because he got the dnc memo that said they are pro war as long as Trump is in office.

Grouch.

Jesus, are you dumb.

Not being best buddies with anybody in the Mid East IS NOT THE SAME AS there are no good people in the Mid East.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McWords

See “McPaper”, above. Notably, Cris’ favorite source, flashy and simplistic.

Best,
Ted

Hey Chris,
Case in point, you are mentally ill, maybe not literally but you present yourself as such, I did liberals an injustice lumping you all together, but the reality is there truly is something mentally wrong with you, for someone so eager to turn everyone on your side, you have a really f**ked up way of doing it. I don't give a shit what people think of me on this site, I'm here to learn and contribute when I can, you on the other hand just post here looking for conflict, how can anyone take you serious when all you do is cause conflict? What's your end goal, call people names and bully people because they don't agree with you? You definitely are changing the hearts and minds.....Ha HA HA what a fool.

Quote of the day:
Originally Posted By: L. Brown

"Somewhat silly, I think, to "dislike" someone you've never met other than in Cyberspace. Or to "like" them, for that matter. (One reason I don't do facebook.) You may agree or disagree with someone's opinions, perhaps correct factual errors or have your own corrected. But like or dislike, for me, seem better reserved for when you've actually met someone. In the flesh."

Who's response is this?

+1 Silly indeed.

No, the article you cited does not make that point. Below is the language from the article from which you based your assumption:

"The Defense Department's annual budget requests fill in some of the blanks regarding Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria as the documents weigh budget requests against previous and anticipated troop levels. The latest budget request, published in March 2019, estimated the average number of troops between October 2018 and September 2019 in Afghanistan (12,000), Iraq and Syria (both 5,800), and support troops nearby (60,000)."

It is clear that these numbers are estimates used for budgetary considerations and are not concrete. Further it does not indicate that there are 60,000 troops in the middle east, but rather "nearby" Where is nearby? It doesn't say. That is kind of ambiguous isn't it? Do you know what ambiguous even means Ms. Peep?

Sure, we have troops in the middle east, but they are not fighting ISIS as we pulled out and tossed our allies under the bus. BTW, you don't know sh!t about the Kurds. Otherwise you would not be parroting exactly what trump said. The guy you have the temerity to call stupid figured out that on you very quickly. Seems you only had a mirror to peer into with that statement.

I'd grade this effort as a D, only because you benefit from a curve.

Your assumptions abound, but allow me a second to disabuse you of them. I'm not one of these "lets come together" feel good people. No, I don't want to make you see the light or realize your poor judgement, I know thats never going to happen. Rather I come here to rub your face in your sh!t in hopes that you will choke on it...and to look at pictures of nice doubles from time to time.

Now are you done being a whinny little b!tch, and feeling victimized by a mentally ill liberal? Methinks not.

It’s an animal that can live on both land and in water. Like a U.S. Marine.


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Tun Tavern, 1775.

Where were you when julian castro campaigned for the absolute right for a trans 'female' to have an abortion? Is faux rage, fueled by estrogen, carbon neutral?

Your assumptions abound, but allow me a second to disabuse you of them. I'm not one of these "lets come together" feel good people. No, I don't want to make you see the light or realize your poor judgement, I know thats never going to happen. Rather I come here to rub your face in your sh!t in hopes that you will choke on it...and to look at pictures of nice doubles from time to time.

Now are you done being a whinny little b!tch, and feeling victimized by a mentally ill liberal? Methinks not.

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What a fool you are! Ha ha ha thanks for the laughs, at least you can say you contributed!

All of a sudden you (well, you and the McPaper you keep quoting) are an expurt on troop levels in the Middle East? Not concrete? Hey, follow the money. The article says the funds shed light on where the troops are. 60,000 in the neighborhood, even if it is a ballpark guess, might be too many. Nothing good comes of it.
Suddenly, after Gulf War and its many sequels, you want to spew forth on who our friends are, and who should stand with them? The last administration couldn’t see fit to send rescue troops, who were ready to go, to save the poor souls in Bengazi, but, you think this one should carve out a homeland for a people the neighbors aren’t interested in having around? That, and the mighty ISIS that isn’t is your issue?
To quote a quote, “At this point, what difference does it make” how many troops are in Syria?
You have no argument to make. Another 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000 American troops isn’t going to bring peace to that neighborhood, you just like to pretend if a liberal did it, it would. You would like to pretend a liberal could save the Kurds, but, Obama had his shot, and it sure as hell wasn't done.

Insult me all you want. Your argument is and will always be weak.

Long on insults. bill, with the inane, clueless questions he asks, that show he doesn’t read and might not know how to think, deserves it.

Best,
Ted

So, I expose the transgender idiot nca225 as a liar, and the idiot confirms that he/she has no reading comprehension whatsoever by seeing that as a flag of surrender.

I never bought a gun from a Nazi, and never made such a statement.So the pathetic loser nca225 feels the sick need to create something out of thin air.

It looks like rocky mtn bill has repeated a stupid question in defense of his fellow Libtard idiot nca225. I'd normally answer right away, but I can't help thinking of the many times I asked him pointed questions, and he ran away from them or pretended to ignore them.

Sorry this has gotten so far off topic. I did try to keep it there with the question about the V7, maybe bill can help find what page that was on for you.

I forgot what the question was.

Sorting rear harness wires on the FJ, scratching my head. I’ll get it, soon enough. Need a title and a plate. Minnesota could hardly do that before the shit hit the fan.

Liberals. They were trying in Minneapolis to ban plastic bags, single family homes, drive throughs on restaurants, and, cars, and to force everyone on a bus or a train and into dense housing.
The pandemic short circuited all that crap.

Thank God. Never have so many of their snowflake talking points gone up in smoke at one time in history.

Best,
Ted

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Anniversary Dairy Queen, tonight! Cookie dough mini blizzard, to go.

No King, the Wild West province of Nova Scotia mass murderer wasn't driving an RCMP cruiser. He bought a similar vehicle well in advance of his massacre and owned it outright.

Do you think your Liberal leaders will have the same knee-jerk reaction to firearm misuse, and ban all vehicles that resemble police vehicles too?

The carnage and killings and 16 arson fires continued for nearly 13 hours. This is what mentally ill murderers do, and restrictions upon the rights of law abiding citizens will never stop them. But I tend to think that if a cop impersonator started killing large numbers of people and set 16 arson fires, other cops should have stopped the carnage. There was no shortage of witnesses. You can make lame excuses for your anti-gun sentiments, just as you made excuses for the extension of time for the industry you have been associated with to pollute the area and waters inhabited by Indigenous Native Americans. But killers always seem to find new and creative ways to kill. Supporting the Liberal Left Democrats who infringe upon the 2nd Amendment Rights of law abiding citizens is never going to change that. I glad you lived to see another of your absurd utopian visions shattered by reality.

Over the course of 100 years, there were a number of Baluch battalions raised by the Indian Army. They participated in a lot of campaigns, most notable the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868...some Baluch stayed in E.Africa after that operation by the Indian Army.


At least one of the Baluch regiments wore these uniforms with the green tunics:


In WWI "Baluch" battalions were all over the place and a Baluch won the first VC ever awarded to a non Brit. In 1922, these battalions were combined into the X Baluch Regiment in the British army. Here are officers from 1929 - all Brit. Photo obviously taken in front of the Sind Club in Karachi. And the standard bearers behind the officers look Punjabi, not Baluch.


My friend Indian Army Major General D.K. (Monty) Palit (Pictured with youngest son) was first assigned to the X Baluch after Dera Dun about 1939. He and his brother-in-law and my friend LTG Krishnan Sibal (commander of a division that assaulted Lahore in 1967). General Palit said that for his first 6 years in the army no British officer ever spoke to him.
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=475388&page=all



My swagger stick from the X Baluch Regiment.


After 1947 it was incorporated into the Pakistan Army and combined with Punjabi units. My experience with Baluch is the they don't take well to formal uniformed Military units.. The were inveterate raiders and ambushers. I think most of the Baluch unit pictures were actually Pashtuns, Hazara, Punjabi and maybe some Baluch.

Whatever...search all you want on the internet - I doubt you'll find more double guns concentrated in one place in a Baluch Jirga than in my photo on the first page. Those were Indus Valley Baluch and the place was full of migrating birds...not the arid sterility of the Sulaiman Mountains.


Oh wait...sorry...this line is about...motorcycles?

Reminiscent of, let's define an assault weapon then ban 'em all, or let's embrace the culture of Canada. This never would have happened if the RCMP were banned, then no one could be them or look like them. So sad that reason and the will of the people were ignored.

Ah, what does it matter, your RCMP cruisers are safe, not a politician on either side of the aisle are willing to progress. They're all beholden to the big auto lobby and triple eh Canada.

This pun may be somewhat amphibious to anyone unfamiliar with the peculiarities of Canadian speech patterns and high quality auto insurance.



Yes. Try to keep up, Argo. Didn’t you have an underpowered Limey lump of some sort?


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The U.S. Marines, America’s ambiguous force in readiness since 1775.

Jesus you are an ignorant stupid , selfish piece of sh!t Ms. Peep.

Your response indicates that you don't want American boots on the ground in the Middle East. Well as long as we want their oil you know that isn't gonna happen. And it is because we want their oil and historically set up and supported for US dictators over there is one of the several reasons we have all these problems in the Middle East.

And after Obama unwisely withdrew from Iraq, and ISIS came storming in, instead of using only using US troops to fight them back, we armed and trained the Kurds to fight them for us, and they beat them back taking some 10,000 plus casulties.

You do realize they fought ISIS for us so we didn't have to send more troops there to die don't you? Obama got them to do that.

And you are right along with Trump in how we thank them. Abandon them to be slaughtered by Turnkey and force them into an alliance with our adversaries.

https://time.com/3110836/kurds-finally-have-americas-attention/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html

You have a despicable sense of entitlement to you that you think its OK that other peoples should carry on our fights and then toss them under the bus because they deserved it.

What a dull tool you make Ms. Peep.

If you expect anyone to believe in the decades of your frequenting Gene the nazi's shop, that you never bought on gun off of him princess, you should also try to sell us some beach front property in Kansa as well. What did you do those countless times you went there? I'm pretty sure it was just more then to have a discussion about your mutual contempt for all things non-Aryan.

BTW your feverish attempt to defend against this fact betrays you. I know I struck a sensitive cord.

News flash. We don’t actually need their oil, since we elected Mr. Trump. Check in the McPaper. We are an actual exporter of same. Dated, has been news, from you.

They fought ISIS because it was the right thing to do. They would have done it, whether we helped them of not. Obama had nothing to do with it. They have been fighting, rightly, and, unbeknownst to you, wrongly, for a century. Short of inviting them here, there is little we can do to make their situation better. I’m not opposed to that, either. It is a far better option then trying to make the bad guys in their neighborhood play nice with them for the next two thousand years. Ever heard of the Hmong?
You, being a typical dense liberal, can’t or won’t understand that. The Calvary needs to come home. Strangers, attempting to plant the seeds of democracy, in backward 7th century nations has been a distinct failure.

I’m not terribly interested in paying reparations in US lives for what some politician did in the 1950s. It isn’t going to be us that brings about the end of the Syrian or Iranian regimes. The people that live there are going to have to do it.

Keep calling me names. It illustrates how backward, out of touch with reality and weak your arguments truly are.

Best,
Ted

So now the transgender idiot nca225 is saying that I frequented Genre's gunsmith shop "countless times" over a span of "decades".

Let's see if this idiot can find anyplace where I ever said that I did that. During most of the times I went to this establishment, I was riding a bicycle, and earning a few bucks from my paper route. Then, I stopped in a couple times when I was in college. During that period, I wasn't exactly flush with cash, or buying firearms. I had only the few guns that my Dad gave to me, and a couple I bought used from other sources with my meager earnings.

Shortly after that, Gene was more or less forced into retirement by the BATF. He wasn't very good with the record keeping aspect of the gun business. His wife did most of that, but when she wasn't around, he sold guns to anyone he trusted without any thought to three day waiting periods or Bound Ledger Book entries. The final time I visited him, during the Gulf War, was at the new house he built after retiring. I went there seeking a bolt stop for a Siamese Mauser that I was converting to .45-70.

Gene wasn't feeling good, so we didn't go out to his shop to look for the part I needed. I went home without buying anything. There is little doubt that he was an anti-semite... much like our own Libtard Dr. Wanker. But he was an American citizen, like thousands of other Germans who emigrated to the U.S. after the war.

I'm quite sure the lying Libtard idiot who supports anti-gun Liberal Left Democrats will find some way to twist the facts some more. It's kinda like the Great job the idiot thinks Obama did with ISIS. They flourished and grew into a massive and feared force with Obama unable to even slow them down. With Donald Trump in the White House and leading our military, they are little more than a memory, and a reminder of how weak and incompetent Obama was. But a pussy like Obama must seem pretty impressive to a coward like Nancy-boy nca225. The wonder is that the other Libtards here, such as Gladys Kravitz, Billy, etc., are not one bit concerned that Nancy-boy posts anonymously.

He can go ahead and be the keeper of small gun shops and the go to expert on his post high school middle east era, but that’s not even a thimble worth of all the nooks and crannies his agenda wants to remake America with. nca offers a realistic look at the opposition and I can really appreciate that there is no magic to meeting him some day at a range or gun show in the misguided name of common interests.

In that vein Planet of the Humans is free on YouTube.
I’m about 40 minutes in and it seems the “green energy” scam is as bad or worse than dumping your toxic waste on *OPP.

*Other People’s Property

https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE


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AAPL earnings today after the close.

You said scam, and, dang if it didn’t remind me of my question!

What did the V7 salesman say?

Hope he isn’t related to Chris.

Best,
Ted

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He’d drop F bombs quicker then the price.

Never heard back. My offer wasn’t a total lowball. I’m just not paying close to $500 dollars for “dealer prep”. Like I said, I’m in no rush. Wouldn’t want to be a motorcycle dealer in these times. I’ll putter around on the Super Cub until I find what I want. At the price I want.


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I’m a grinder. And patient.

Some days it goes like that. Not being in a rush is always good.

I thought I was going to get the fairing on, and a Morgan Carbtune in the mail today.
The fairing had other notions-big crack next to a lower mounting bolt. Kevlar cloth and epoxy to the rescue.

The Carbtune didn’t show, either. Always tomorrow.
Did some other stuff, instead. Funny how much time you can blow on a 31 year old bike.

Hey, good luck in the quest. I mean that.

Best,
Ted

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Time, and large portions of the beer budget.

Since this thread is light years from it's origin ..........

Kevlar is good stuff, but carbon fiber is awesome. I saw a 34' boat, a couple weeks back, that two buddies imported from Dubai (built there). It is going to be rigged with two billet 3.5 liter custom built "Mercurys", making 460+ hp each, and will attempt to break the twin outboard world speed record. It is a two seat cockpit boat, and at 34' it only weighs 1700 lbs., unrigged. All carbon fiber. Buddy said if it doesn't break 140 mph on the first good pass he will be really surprised. Looking for north of 150 after dialing it in.

SRH

Stan, you're not going into the business of "cash crop" importing are you.

There was an old Indian Motorcycle Company factory racer from the 1930's, famous for showing up in Daytona wearing all green (a bad luck color until Kawasaki) and for painting motorcycles, named "Red Neighbors." He pitched up in Fayetteville, N.C, in the late 1940's and opened "Meridian Motorcycle Co." there. He was a specialist motorcycle painter and managed to obtain the dealership for all the Limey logos - Triumph, BSA, Norton, Matchless in the 1950's...and then for the Italians, Moto-Guzzi and Ducati... He hated 2 strokes and Harleys. He sold bikes to the paratroopers and never forgave LBJ for sending the 82nd to Dominican Republic in 1965 - cost him a lot of money. I bought my first Triumph Bonneville from him in August 1965 and rode it to Florida down 301 the next week.

Then, long after I left Ft. Bragg...in early 70's he open a ship building business on the NC coast making low, sleek, super fast ocean going boats. Guess who was buying them? He died in the mid- 1970's I believe and his daughter took over. Last time I was in Fayetteville, April a year ago, the building was a furniture sales place...sad.

I just had to repair a corner on a 31 year old plastic fairing for a Japanese motorcycle, Stan. I cut about a 1” square out of the remains of a MN. State Troopers bulletproof vest. Soaked it in epoxy I thinned with lacquer thinner, and laid it over the crack. I had worked some into the crack before I thinned the stuff to go into the Kevlar.

Bulletproof vests have a date code on them, and Troopers are required to get new ones when the old one goes out of date. My Trooper neighbor and I took it to the range, and put it on a hay bale, and had at it. It stopped every handgun round we had access to, save one.
A lowly 30 caliber CZ52 that was fed sub gun ammunition, hitting about 1700fps.

Turns out the thing was designed for shooting through cars at checkposts

He said he was impressed. I’m really careful where use the gun.

Best,
Ted

Wow, I didn't know there was any handgun round they wouldn't stop. Kevlar is tough stuff, no doubt.

No, Gene. Not going to try to outrun the long arm of the law at my age. Like we used to say when we were teenagers .............. you may outrun the law car, but you can't outrun his radio. I just enjoy the fast boat crowd. The guy who, along with his partner, imported the big boat set a world record about 11-12 years ago for a single outboard multi-seat boat. He ran 151 in a 20' STV here on the Savannah River. My son and I enjoy hanging out on the sandbars with them and stretching one out on the river every now and then.

I'd give my left cajone to get to ride in that big 34' cockpit boat, after it's got it's graphics and is rigged this year. The goal is to have it ready to run at a big boat race at Lake of the Ozarks, in August, to try and break the record.

SRH

I sent my youngest son to college in Savannah..after being assured that it was a sober city with no drinking and carousing going on and an absolutely serious focus on academics and intellectual exercises. I didn't hear anything about fast boats.

Obviously you didn't hear anything about St. Patrick's Day in Savannah, either.

SRH

Stan,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ_52

Scroll through the 7.62X25 info, until you get to the list of body armor it defeats.

It is an angry little round, and, the most accurate handgun I own.


Best,
Ted

Read some interesting stuff there, thanks. For example, that silk is so tough.

"In 1881, Tombstone physician George E. Goodfellow noticed that a faro dealer Charlie Storms who was shot twice by Luke Short had one bullet stopped by a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket that prevented that bullet from penetrating."

They don't give the pistol's trigger pull any praise, Ted. It said most run 8-10 lbs. Yikes.

Did you work yours over?

SRH

Stan,
You bet:

https://harringtonproducts.com/firing-pins/

As a side note, I haven’t met a good military pistol trigger pull, yet.

Best,
Ted

Not sure if it’s the music Dave hates or just the melody (ie politics).
Apologies to John Anderson.

https://youtu.be/iEFGEph93g4

For craigd...(music is often political)

Lil’j is a hero to most
But he never meant shyte to me you see
Straight up racist that sucka’ is
Simple and lame
Mother F him and King Brain


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Above lyrics cribbed from...
Fight the Power! By Public Enemy
https://youtu.be/UVIqfMScWUc
Hi, King! (just kidding. Sorta)

Sometimes it’s just music:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYfMUjtBjI

HI Lonny!

Sunday, about 70 out, and there is just something about talking a slim Colombian chick onto the back of a liter sport bike to go for a ride and smell the flowers.

Best,
Ted
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With non political lyrics.

I do like Busch! (Pun intended)


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Drinkin’, smokin’ tryin’ to free my mind.
https://youtu.be/2DDMP-7NhDM

True enough, but other times it is more than just music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOFNLQtEWZ8

Motorcycles, hockey, music and anything Bollocks related in this thread, guys.
Don’t want them Churchill chaps blowing a gasket.

Ted, your buddies have the big v strom & versys? Like to get run over on one of those 650’s.

re Sad situation for Canadians... thought that might be about the lack of playoff hockey at the moment. King and me...


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...at least that’s the one thing we’ve got.
https://youtu.be/v9WvvRus7u4

To a one, they have gone 650. Pretty much done riding with me.

Best,
Ted

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They are out in front of you, however.

See you around!



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWqxFMUnskw

Originally Posted By: King Brown
Accurate or slanted, the polls line up with my notion when I joined the board: the shooting sports will be unrecognizable in my lifetime, before I die. I'm closing in on 89. There'll be lots of loopholes and false starts, grandfathering, buybacks or not, the antis now have what they wanted all along: a strengthened regulatory regimen to bolt-action rifles, pumps, SA and SxS shotguns. If we're lucky.


I’m sure your brothers in the shooting sports appreciate your efforts.

Best,
Ted

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You really should start thinking about what kind of world you are leaving
for Keith Richards.

https://youtu.be/mbHJ0KNYEoA


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Not if I see you first.
https://youtu.be/F86CdZDuoog

That picture is as close as you will ever get.

Best,
Ted


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWj8Nz5DUg
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I’ve been to Detroit on a motorcycle. You can bet your ass
it wasn’t on a Super Cub.

Since this has wandered all over the map, give me some advice.
-- Here are the original wrenches from my first Triumph tool case, a 1965 Triumph T120R Bonneville, purchased in Fayetteville, NC in August 1965. They are "Whitworth" aka "BSF" (British Strip Fine).
-- There are four Whitworth sockets left over from my complete set.
-- An original Triumph (500, 650) crank pinion puller (toothed)
-- And a Triumph T120 top dead center TDC ignition timing tool.

Can anybody use these? How to get rid of them? I'm not going to ride again.



Feb 1966 in front of the 3rd Special 'Forces Group chapel on Smoke-Bomb Hill.

I’m okay with that.




You bad.


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In your corner. Every time.
https://youtu.be/Pe7w0P0pOSg

Not me, thanks Gene. I'm not going to ride again, either. Not on a bike.

SRH

Gene,
I can use them. PM me.

Best,
Ted

https://youtu.be/ww1NIai60mY


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https://youtu.be/KXDIK4dcM00

Holy Cow! This thread isn’t locked down yet?

Put 50 quick miles on the bike yesterday, Lonny. I ‘gotta get some FJ livery for it, I’m sick of answering that question already. Dude pulled up next to me at a light on a mint Honda CB900F, in the red and white color scheme, had to flick away a tear, reminded of my misspent youth.

A bike that kept me out of handcuffs on more than one occasion.

Hope you are having a good day. Sunday looks good for skeet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOi0pfroiU


Best,
Ted

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You listen to that stuff on Friday?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HuiH-0R6a0